{"id":89782,"date":"2025-07-16T06:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89782"},"modified":"2025-07-16T06:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:08:44","slug":"the-dfl-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89782","title":{"rendered":"The DFL At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The wages of DFL control are languishing as a backwater.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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\">New investments announced this morning in:<br><br>Pennsylvania: $90,000,000,000<br>Minnesota: $33,000,000<br><br>The world is passing Minnesota by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/voLuUFV27Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/voLuUFV27Z<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bill Glahn (@billglahn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billglahn\/status\/1945179563048198608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Count the zeros:  that&#8217;s 90 <em>billion <\/em>in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/the-world-is-passing-minnesota-by\/\">Pennsylvania<\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s $90 billion, with a \u201cb.\u201d One thing these projects all have in common is that none of them are being built in Minnesota. Instead, this is what we get: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaaltv.com\/news\/gov-walz-announces-33-million-for-small-businesses-in-minnesota\/\">from<\/a> KAAL-TV:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And 33 <em>million<\/em> in Minnesota:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As KAAL reports, \u201cThis new funding is expected to reach 225 new and developing businesses.\u201d That works out to about $147,000 per business. Meanwhile, back in Pennsylvania:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Other than the number of zeros, the big difference is that the big, Pennsylvania number comes from private investors.  Ripe marks&#8230;er, taxpayers covered it in Minnesota.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yeah &#8211; while I&#8217;m not tired of winning at the national level, I&#8217;m over it here locally.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wages of DFL control are languishing as a backwater.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Count the zeros: that&#8217;s 90 billion in Pennsylvania&#8230;: And 33 million in Minnesota: Other than the number of zeros, the big difference is that the big, Pennsylvania number comes from private investors. Ripe marks&#8230;er, taxpayers covered it in Minnesota. So yeah &#8211; while I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,68,320,51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89782","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=89782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89783,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89782\/revisions\/89783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}