{"id":12158,"date":"2010-07-20T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12158"},"modified":"2010-07-20T09:53:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:53:32","slug":"vague-and-unworkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12158","title":{"rendered":"Vague And Unworkable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anoka County Conservative Examiner&#8221;, writing at Examiner.com, does a detailed takedown of Dayton and Kelliher&#8217;s &#8220;plans&#8221; for the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The whole things is essential; <a href=\"http:\/\/cl.publicaster.com\/ClickThru.aspx?pubids=6887%7c80324%7c68859&amp;digest=Fd5TxiuoO%2bmbfSOekO9%2ffQ\">go and read it, please<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 I could pullquote nearly every paragraph, and maybe sometime soon here I will.<\/p>\n<p>But I cut to the conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Looking back at the chart showing the most productive companies in Minnesota, how would [Dayton and Kelliher&#8217;s] policies help prosper Minnesota business? Another proposal by Dayton is to enforce preference to Women-owned, Minority-owned, and Veteran-owned businesses. Why would a special preference be needed and implemented, when organizations should be judged on performance of the free market economy? Creating additional bureaucracy with the forced \u201cStar Cities for Economic Development\u201d program where mayors, city councils, chambers of commerce, and other civic leaders would be forced \u201cin their efforts to attract new and expanding businesses in their communities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the way to prosperity; <em>force <\/em>people to prosper!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnprogressiveproject.com\/diary\/6636\/tom-emmer-and-the-walmartization-of-our-economy\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Progressive Project,<\/a>\u201d Minnesota Republican Gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer and his fellow Republicans have one real goal with our economy, which is to \u201cReduce salaries so that corporations can make larger profits. I call this the Wal-Martization of our economy\u201d. It would seem reasonable to argue that this particular blogger has failed to use critical thinking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps ACCE has never dealt with MPP before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the big finish:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Dayton and Kelliher have failed to add new insight or substantive ideas to fix the Minnesota economy; in fact, their ideas have nothing to do with how a basic business model functions, and may further harm the Minnesota economy with more dysfunction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I already said &#8220;go read the whole thing&#8221;.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t make me beg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &#8220;Anoka County Conservative Examiner&#8221;, writing at Examiner.com, does a detailed takedown of Dayton and Kelliher&#8217;s &#8220;plans&#8221; for the economy. The whole things is essential; go and read it, please.\u00a0\u00a0 I could pullquote nearly every paragraph, and maybe sometime soon here I will. But I cut to the conclusion: Looking back at the chart showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12160,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions\/12160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}