Cold Flint/s
By Mitch Berg
Up until 2020, DFLers could respond to conservative concerns about the state of the Twin Cities with “Hey, at least they’re growing”.
And yes, both Minneapolis and Saint Paul grew, after a fashion, between 2000 and 2020.
But all that has come to a screeching halt, and reversed:
Unstated: most of the people hitting the doors are the productive, taxpaying ripe suck class. Whatever growth is happening is among the class that consumes government revenue – in particular, the non-profit industrial complex and its clients.
Former Crystal city councilman and slap target emeritus Jeff Kolb responds, as usual, economically and precisely:
The Met Council has been running a demographic ponzi scheme, trying to plump up the numbers of the productive class to justify spending, taxing and playing infrastructure games like the cities are healthy and growing.
Like Detroit, I suspect Minneapolis and Saint Paul are about to find out what happens when the productive class hits the exits.
April 4th, 2023 at 8:58 am
Oddly enough, I can see in my crystal ball that despite declining population voter rolls will grow or remain the same during the next election cycle. So, remember to Vote Harder™!
April 4th, 2023 at 9:14 am
Meanwhile, Minneapolis Pubic Schools have seen dropping enrollments throughout the system. I didn’t read beyond the first paragraph or two, but I’m sure they think more money will fix that.
Or maybe they might stop promoting the killing of their future “customers”, or sterilizing their current ones. Heh. I crack myself up.
April 4th, 2023 at 9:25 am
They call it a death spiral for a reason.
Once you reach a certain point in the spiral, no one who get elected to city wide office is doing it as a stage in a political career, but because they want the graft. Paraphrasing Adam Smith, there is a great deal of ruin in a city, Detroit’s FY ’23 budget is 1.2 BILLION $.
April 4th, 2023 at 9:30 am
Good ones, NW.
(shrug) the Curly Effect is predicated on chasing out the productive class.
April 4th, 2023 at 9:59 am
jpa.
Agreed. As long as there are still cemeteries with Hennco and Ramco, there won’t be a drop off of DemoCommie voters.
On a somewhat related note, AT&T is bailing out of their named tower downtown and relocating about 100 employees to their Bloomington facility, by August.
April 4th, 2023 at 11:08 am
Unstated: The only thing keeping Weimerican shit hole cities like SP and Mpls from logging epic population losses is the huge influx of uneducated, unskilled, 75IQ refugees pouring in from 3rd world shit holes.
The degradation of the work force is already starting to take it’s toll. Case in point; Melvin Carter’s staff getting maced tfo of a restaurant and the complete collapse of road maintenance.
If I lived in the Twin cities (lol), I’d start adding regular Alhambra water deliveries into my budget. Jackson MS and Flint MI (and Cape Town South Africa) are not outliers; they are your future.
April 4th, 2023 at 11:42 am
Vlad, in other words, [w]hen things start to break, don’t expect solutions for them. All you’ll see going forward is a blame game played by people who are in over their heads at jobs they never should’ve had.
April 4th, 2023 at 12:47 pm
Jackson, MS has had issues for the whole time that lying, rat bastard Bennie Thompson has been conducting witch hunts on January 6.
April 4th, 2023 at 12:49 pm
That’s exactly right, jdm. Act as if you’re on your own, because you are. You’re just paying through the nose as if someone else was handling it.
April 4th, 2023 at 2:17 pm
Woolly — any local perspective on the Wisconsin Supreme Court Race today?
April 4th, 2023 at 4:39 pm
2016 Dems: “Electing Trump makes us look like a banana republic! 🍌🍌”
2023 Dems: “Hold our beer! 🍻 “
April 4th, 2023 at 4:47 pm
Say, rAT?
Where did you get your JD? When did you pass the bar?
April 4th, 2023 at 5:01 pm
Arch #nevertrumper Josh Amash:
@justinamash
After reading DA Bragg’s indictment of Trump and accompanying statement of facts, I’m stunned any prosecutor would move forward with this. It’s even flimsier than we were led to believe. Thirty-four stacked counts, bootstrapped to an unstated crime, to manufacture felony charges.
https://twitter.com/justinamash/status/1643361709766193153?s=20
April 4th, 2023 at 5:12 pm
The details of the indictment are even more hilarious. The actual crime Trump committed is unmentioned (because he was never accused or found guilty of it), but Bragg then bases his indictment on this “crime” as though Trump had been tried for it, found guilty of it, and was in jail serving time for it.
This is hilarious!
OMG the ability of Trump to turn Dems into drooling idiots is so much fun to watch it is almost worth electing him again.
Soros may be reconsidering his commitment to DEI after Bragg laid this turd on the American people. It is so bad it throws into any of the other ongoing Trump investigations into disrespect. Massive F up by the Dems and #nevertrumpers! They lose either way, if the case is dismissed, Trump wins, and if he is convicted by a Brooklyn jury drawn from the citizens who elected Bragg, Trump wins. Best of all? If it goes to trial, that won’t happen until next year, when Trump likely will be the GOP nominee 🤣🤣🤣.
April 4th, 2023 at 5:14 pm
BTW, I have never passed the Bar or been awarded a JD though I, personally, myself, have occasionally found myself in court.
April 4th, 2023 at 5:44 pm
Trump’s next court appearance for this joke of a prosecution is scheduled for next December.
It is my fondest wish that the #TDS addled Dems could, for one second, see themselves as they really are. It would be best for them if, during that second, they had no sharp objects or poisons within reach.
April 4th, 2023 at 8:17 pm
It’s pretty telling when left leaning and other Trump hating lawyas are making fun of fat boy, Soros puppet Bragg’s actions here. Now that it’s looking like he’s committed a felony under New York law himself by leaking information on the indictment to the media, he really looks incompetent.