The wages of DFL control are languishing as a backwater.
Count the zeros: that’s 90 billion in Pennsylvania…:
Google said it would invest $25 billion in the region in AI and data center infrastructure over the next two years, while investment firm Brookfield said it had signed contracts to provide more than $3 billion of power to Google from two hydroelectric dams on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
That’s $90 billion, with a “b.” One thing these projects all have in common is that none of them are being built in Minnesota. Instead, this is what we get: from KAAL-TV:
And 33 million in Minnesota:
As KAAL reports, “This new funding is expected to reach 225 new and developing businesses.” That works out to about $147,000 per business. Meanwhile, back in Pennsylvania:
The list of participating CEOs includes leaders from global behemoths like Blackstone, Bridgewater, SoftBank, Amazon Web Services, BlackRock and ExxonMobil and local companies such as the Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which deploys AI to bolster energy capacity. Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, will also attend.
Some of this investment would have surely come to Minnesota if not for the many taxes, laws and policies enacted in the past three years to discourage private investment and weaken our electrical grid.
Other than the number of zeros, the big difference is that the big, Pennsylvania number comes from private investors. Ripe marks…er, taxpayers covered it in Minnesota.
So yeah – while I’m not tired of winning at the national level, I’m over it here locally.
I saw a clip of Walz touting the 5 year survival rate of businesses started in Minnesota. I assumed that the rate is above average because the bulk of businesses started in Minnesota qualify for a variety of State DEI grants. Same for non-profits. Otherwise, people interested in started a business are disproportionately moving out of State first.
Gosh, maybe we could ask the likes of Alida Rockefeller Messinger to invest in something productive versus hysterical wokey politics.
Naw, ain’t gonna happen.
When I was plotting my escape from California, Minnesota stood out as a mecca of high tech and smart people.
Univac, Control Data, IBM, Honeywell, 3M, Cray Research…it was a beacon of light beckoning this young engineer; come hither and prosper!
A look at the demographics suggested Minnesotans were common sense, largely white middle Americans; my people. Available acreage at affordable prices, hunting and fishing, yeah man.
Now it’s known as a mecca for nut cases, pediatric genital mutilation, child grooming, abortion and unwholesome activities of all descriptions. What a shitshow!
What the hell happened? How could it go from “The Good Life” to, literally, a smoking heap full of mental midgets and mooching minorities and moonbats? Who did that? How? Why?
I just watched the body cam footage of Senator Nicole Mitchell getting busted in her ninja suit. She’s clearly got some serious mental issues, and isn’t very smart when lucid. But there she was, being taken for a serious person doing serious work. Kooks, degenerates and troons are deciding what your lives will be.
Looking at it from afar, one cannot help to be awestruck at the rapidity and completeness of the fall.
Why the hell would anyone move a thriving business up there?
Arthur;
My first sales job was with National Car Rental, which began in St. Louis Park, eventually moving to Edina until they were purchased by Alamo. I was transferred to Los Angeles, which was still somewhat sane in 79, 80 and 81. I can’t tell you how many customers and prospects asked me “why would anyone establish a business in Minnesota, because, even then, the state had the reputation of being anti business.