{"id":19881,"date":"2011-05-09T05:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T11:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19881"},"modified":"2011-05-08T12:02:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T18:02:11","slug":"afflicting-the-afflicted-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19881","title":{"rendered":"Afflicting The Afflicted"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the lefty playbook; compare apples to distributor caps, then use the results to give ones’ supporters the sense of victimizaiton that, you hope, will keep them chanting on cue.<\/p>\n

So with this bit from the City Pages<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Minnesotans who can’t afford their rent outnumber those who can, according to a new study released today, landing us dead last in a ranking of affordable housing markets in the Midwest.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The statement is…well, just wierd. <\/span><\/p>\n

Over half of Minnesotans can’t afford rent?<\/span><\/p>\n

Rent…where? <\/span><\/p>\n

Which half of Minnesotans?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t worry – the point isn’t about thinking:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The National Low Income Housing Coalition released numbers today showing that Minnesotans need to be making, on average, $15.79 an hour in order to afford a decent two-bedroom apartment. Most of us are not.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, yeah – most of “us” do, if by “us” you mean Minnesotans, who according to the Census have a median income of $56955 a year.<\/p>\n

That’s only part of it, of course:<\/p>\n