The DFL At Work
By Mitch Berg
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.
July 16th, 2025 at 6:14 am
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.
July 16th, 2025 at 6:20 am
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.
July 16th, 2025 at 11:41 am
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?
July 16th, 2025 at 12:19 pm
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.
July 16th, 2025 at 1:51 pm
Fraud is Minnesota’s growth industry. On the heels of the Feeding Our Future ($250 million +) investigation and convictions, we have search warrants landing today for Somali shadow companies scamming the Medicaid Housing Stability Services funds.
MN was the first state to authorize Medicaid for HSS benefits in 2020 and a couple of dozen companies quickly formed to milk the system. In 2024 more than $100 million in payments to “support” companies was claimed. Many of these companies were operating out of the same building in St. Paul, with duplicative payments for phantom clients. The $100 million is probably just an opening estimate, pending the warrants served by Acting (s/b called “Action”) U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson.
I’m sure that Walz and Ellison are shocked – shocked! – to find out that more fraud was happening right under their noses!
July 16th, 2025 at 2:36 pm
> ArthurRadley on July 16, 2025 at 11:41 am.
Very well written. I was going to let it stand on its own but then I read somewhere else about the “metropolitan elites” and a bell went off, so to speak.
It is well known that in MN, the metro areas plus the usual sprinkling statewide of lefty voters have a 55-45 control of government. But, I think you’ll find that in almost every blue or blue-ish state that it is the metro areas that predominate population- and thus voting-wise. CA (75-25?) certainly and NY (75-25?) too, of course, but also IL (70-30?). Or howzabout CO, WA and OR (all 60-40)? I’ve been told the same goes for GA (probably 55-45?).
I don’t know what it is – there’s probably various explanations – but there’s something about big cities that causes people to go stupid (btw, this also applies to Europe).
July 16th, 2025 at 3:07 pm
NW, I just read that story (breaking yet again by Alpha News).
Once again, the feds have to take control of an out of control state’s affairs. This is beyond just “more fraud”, there is more here.
These Somalian mongrels are not smart enough to hatch these scams themselves, they have got to be being manipulated from the inside of state government. It’s not just incompetence or fecklessness from state employees; there’s a cartel of crooks in the various agencies that dole out money to non-profits…there is no other explanation.
All the more reason to cut fed funding to Timpon Walz’s shitshow. I can’t do anything about the chaos, but I sure as f*ck don’t want my money going to fund it.
I am going to write to Senator Lindsay Graham to inform him that Minnesotan Somali pirates are stealing $ he could be using to foment more forever wars somewhere. That will light a fire under him.
July 16th, 2025 at 4:27 pm
Boo – Amy Bock was the embedded DFL apparatchik who was the criminal mastermind of the FOF scam. I can’t wait to see what fat turd pops up when this really starts swirling.
July 17th, 2025 at 12:25 am
“These Somalian mongrels are not smart enough to hatch these scams themselves . . . “
Au contraire, my friend. There are plenty of very smart, very sharp Somalis who grew up in that culture of crime and fraud and theft. They are very very good at it, and, in Minnesota, they have both a nucleus of DFL/DSA leaders who are sympathetic to the idea of enriching the poor deprived minorities any which way, plus an established Somali mafia headed at the top by the daughter of a Somali warlord who learned at the feet of accomplished criminals.
IOW, Minnesota is now Somali-mafia Central. And half the the DFL/DSA are quietly chuckling about how they’re helping this happen. A LOT of the skim is federal money, so there’s less of an urge amongst the White Wine Wimmins to protect their neighbors’ money.
We are the sheep, being quietly fleeced by the wolves. (Does that work? Wolves after fleece? Maybe not . . . )