{"id":7300,"date":"2009-12-18T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T18:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7300"},"modified":"2009-12-18T08:19:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T13:19:10","slug":"states-economic-trend-looks-positive-startribune-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7300","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Succeeds Like Success?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the state economy, dragged the the abysmal national economy – got dragged down last year (albeit to a much lesser extent than the rest of the nation, though much much much more than neighboring low-tax, low-“service” North and South Dakota), the local Sorosphere and lefty pundocracy leapt about like poo-flinging monkeys on Red Bull; “It’s Timmy’s recession!\u00a0 It’s Timmy’s recession!”, they yapped, and there was even evidence that some of them knew what a “recession” was.<\/p>\n

So with the news that it wasn’t that <\/em>bad, and that Minnesota – fresh off Pawlenty’s successful rear-guard action against the DFL’s “Happy To Spend Money Like Crack Whores With Stolen Gold Cards” attempted spending spree last session – is S recovering faster than most of the nation<\/a> (at least, the parts of the nation that got into trouble\u00a0 by being high-tax and high “service”in the first place)…:<\/p>\n

The state gained 2,000 jobs in November, according to figures released Thursday that also contained a revision of October’s results that showed twice as many jobs were created that month as originally thought.<\/p>\n

“Compared to where we have been, this is just really good news. I am not ready to start singing ‘Happy Days Are Here Again,’ but it looks like we are headed in the right direction,” said state economist Tom Stinson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

{{crickets}}<\/p>\n

Where do you find crickets in December, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the state economy, dragged the the abysmal national economy – got dragged down last year (albeit to a much lesser extent than the rest of the nation, though much much much more than neighboring low-tax, low-“service” North and South Dakota), the local Sorosphere and lefty pundocracy leapt about like poo-flinging monkeys on Red Bull; […]<\/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-7300","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\/7300","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=7300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7304,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions\/7304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}