More On Those Disastrous Pawlenty Years

Forbes says F the Twin Cities are the number four Job Market in the US:

“The Twin Cities, and Minnesota in general, has a much more diverse economy than many other parts of the nation,” said Vang. “While our heart goes out to all those individuals who are unemployed right now, our economy tends not to be as hurt as bad as nationally because we are never dependent on one sector. We didn’t extend ourselves as far out during the home mortgage crisis as other cities did so that gave us more breathing room for our economy to return.”

Hmmmm.

Of course, the market isn’t great for everyone:

One of the thousands hoping for an economic recovery is Riordan Frost, 22, of St. Paul. Eight months after college graduation, Frost is still looking for…

For what?

…a public policy job.

“Left college with high hopes, thinking ‘here I am world,’ and it turn out that way, sadly,” he said.

Maybe young Mr. Frost will take the opportunity to find a career someplace other than trying to run society.  At age twenty freaking two.

Frost tried plan B, which was looking for retail jobs and a job at movie theatres — all without luck. He is now working as an unpaid intern at the MN 2020 organization as a transportation policy associate.

Or maybe not.

Anyway – DAMN YOU, Governor Pawlenty.

15 thoughts on “More On Those Disastrous Pawlenty Years

  1. “He is now working as an unpaid intern at the MN 2020 organization”

    Wait, isn’t having unpaid interns “pure evil” or something?

  2. After 10 years or so under Jeff VanWychen’s wing, he’ll be able to manufacture incoherent, BS laden papspew that is correctly spelled and properly punctuated!

    Now that’s what I call career growth.

  3. Unless you have a good plan, don’t go to college just for the sake of going to college. If you don’t know why you are going, then go to a 2 year program and learn how to weld or work on air conditioning. We need more of those people than we do art history majors.

  4. “We didn’t extend ourselves as far out during the home mortgage crisis as other cities did so that gave us more breathing room for our economy to return.”

    We had no boom, so we had no bust.

    The city of Minneapolis is slowly being hollowed-out.

    What fun it would be to be part of a boom, even if it busted later on. Moving the functions and functionaries of the national government out of D.C. and into the cities currently housing Federal Reserve Banks?

    If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.

  5. What exactly do you expect Riordan? Were you expecting to just get your diploma and become the CEO of a company? And isn’t it a telling sign that you can’t even lower yourself and find a “retail” job…or in a theatre?!?!!? You mean even Burger King won’t hire you? With a 4 year degree?

    Or is it, that your degree is in basket weaving, you have no job skills, and no private sector employer would see you worth investing training time upon?

    [Here’s a hint…if that’s really the first name your mommy and daddy gave you…start by going down to the Ramsey County courthouse and changing it to something normal. Unless you want your vocabulary to include “Would you like fries with that” for the rest of your life.]

  6. From MN2020 libtard website:

    Riordan Frost joins Minnesota 2020 to aid with Transportation Policy. He graduated from Connecticut College with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 2010. In the past, he has interned for U.S. Senator Klobuchar in Minneapolis, where he learned how policy directly affects people by working in immigration casework. He has a passion for trains and all manner of public transit, which is proved by the fact that he once took the train home to Minnesota from Connecticut.

    Would you hire an east coast liberal, with a 4 year degree in PHILOSOPHY to work for YOU? Here’s another tip for Riordan: You only will get hired if an employer sees VALUE in your skills. Which is why you are an unpaid volunteer for a libtard “thinktank”. You’re a perfect fit for them.

  7. Would you hire an east coast liberal, with a 4 year degree in PHILOSOPHY to work for YOU?

    Well, as a guy who entered the job market with a BA in English, I’ll jump to Mr. Frost’s defense. The degree isn’t the problem. I know not a few excellent thinkers and productive people who have degrees in philosophy (she jumps to mind) and other fields which, while they may not have a direct tie-in to a career (for most), teach people how to think (or try to), which can be the most important job skill of all.

    No, my problem is with 22 year old kids who want to get into “policy”. It’s the gateway drug for the professional politician and/or hanger-on.

  8. <i<if that's really the first name your mommy and daddy gave you…start by going down to the Ramsey County courthouse and changing it to something normal.

    Please, sir, could you provide a list of approved names for gainful employment?

    It seems Riordan is still going to need to find a job so he can pay bills.

  9. I’m not someone to bag on someone’s name.

    But someone who gets out of college wanting a gig in “policy?” Distrust, then verify.

    And for the paper to pick that particular example to show the kind of unemployment we have in this state – a state full of people with actual jobs and careers and families out of work? Very odd.

  10. Please, sir, could you provide a list of approved names for gainful employment?

    Bob. Not Robert, just Bob.
    Times is hard. That is the only name on the list.

  11. It’s the “peer” affect, Mitch. Journalists feel that they have much more in common with an unemployed philosopher than they do with a normal person who actually provides value to our dynamic society.

  12. I’ve looked at the Connecticut College website. It seems to be a feeder to 3rd tier law schools. Their news section highlights this:

    1/7 – Trapeze school inspires students to explore falling and flying

  13. Easy answer, stooge…a name where I don’t have to ask an english major for the correct pronounciation.

  14. Mitch Berg said:

    “The degree isn’t the problem.”

    True. The problem is more likely that he struck out on the “retail jobs and a job at movie theatres”, so it’s back to _government_policy_.

    Soooo much trust for government given to people who can’t manage to score a job in retail or as a popcorn jockey (no offense meant, but I don’t think the bar is set that high, correct?). *shrug*

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