{"id":89360,"date":"2025-03-07T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89360"},"modified":"2025-03-07T07:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:28:55","slug":"who-has-two-thumbs-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89360","title":{"rendered":"Who Has Two Thumbs&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;and called this number six to 12 months ago?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The report predicts that spending growth will outpace revenue in 2029, leaving Minnesota in the red after a record-setting projected surplus of $17.5 billion in 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/39zpxGo8Rv\">https:\/\/t.co\/39zpxGo8Rv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FOX 9 (@FOX9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX9\/status\/1897682978492281174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you even need to ask?<\/p>\n<p>From 18B a head to 6B behind in two years. <\/p>\n<p>Attaway, DFL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Worse, but could have been worser<br>&quot;MN budget outlook adjusted down amid economic, fiscal uncertainty. FY 26-27 projected balance now $456 million, $160 million less than Dec. Projected FY 2028-29 general fund shortfall now $5.995 billion, $852 million worse than Nov. estimates.&quot;<\/p>&mdash; Peter Callaghan (@CallaghanPeter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CallaghanPeter\/status\/1897672701470298329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But could it <em>really\u00a0<\/em>have &#8220;been worser&#8221;?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because there&#8217;s no real chance the states ruling DFL clacque are going to do anything useful about it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Not to say they won&#8217;t do <em>something&#8230;<\/em>predictable:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/mnhouseDFL\/status\/1897683817768345976\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, are there plenty of Minnesota voters stupid enough to believe that DFL spending under <em>Biden <\/em>spun the state&#8217;s budget wheel <strong>$24 Billion Dollars in the wrong direction<\/strong> in two years? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, they&#8217;re sure hoping so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Right. Trump forced you to squander an $18 billion surplus two years before his reelection.<\/p>&mdash; Mitch &quot;The Wa\u0142\u0119sa Project&quot; Berg \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 (@mitchpberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mitchpberg\/status\/1897695281812009048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s not just Howard &#8211; who&#8217;s replaced Smith as the dumbest voice in the legislature:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and called this number six to 12 months ago? Do you even need to ask? From 18B a head to 6B behind in two years. Attaway, DFL. But could it really\u00a0have &#8220;been worser&#8221;?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Because there&#8217;s no real chance the states ruling DFL clacque are going to do anything useful about it.\u00a0 Not to say they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89360","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=89360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89364,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89360\/revisions\/89364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}