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Opportunity Drifts

A friend of the blog emails:

With this most recent snowstorm, there has been lots of discussion about snow removal. Reasonable people look at the streets of Minneapolis and Saint Paul and say no wonder people are moving to suburbs-the cities are just incompetent.

Leftist urbanists look at the state of the streets of Minneapolis and Saint Paul and giggle saying ha ha car drivers. We hate you and get out of our city so we can drive it all ourselves.

The really clueless look at the condition of the streets of Minneapolis and Saint Paul and say, hey! Let’s charge people even more so we can mess up sidewalks (alleys in the case of Saint Paul) the same way we mess up the streets. You people don’t really need to be anywhere for the winter anyway, right? Just let us take good care of you.

Everything from cradle to grave is an opportunity to transfer money and power from people to the institutions of big left.

Once you internalize that, you understand the goals of the DFL.

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8 responses to “Opportunity Drifts”

  1. Emery Avatar
    Emery

    Minneapolis does a lousy job of plowing streets. I wouldn’t expect any better for sidewalks.

  2. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    I think this post is based on a misunderstanding. Modern government orgs, city, state, and federal are progressively (ha!) moving away from simple-minded competence in areas considered important by why-men. Police, fire, snow removal… don’t those all exist as evidence of why privilege? Modern governments have other goals and aspirations.

  3. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    The worst plowed streets in St Paul are the old parts of town where there’s not enough off-street parking so cars sit on the street for 3 days until the city declares the snow emergency to make them move the cars to plow.

    Cities like Roseville are newer, built when cars were common, so they have plenty of off street parking and street parking bans during the winter. Saint Paul simply needs to condemned two houses on every block, turn those lots into neighborhood off street parking permit only, and then ban on street parking during the winter. Plowing problem solved.

    Except doing that allows people to keep their cars, which is antithetical to having light rail and bicycles. So the plowing problem cannot be solved because the solution would be part of the problem of having too many cars destroying the planet.

  4. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    In addition to supply chain issues that have reduced inventories of marine dealers, fear of crime was a factor in the cancellation of the Sportsmen’s Show at River Center, after 50 years.

    Over in Minndianapolis, 4 people were shot near a LRT station last night.

    I’m glad that so many people are happy to pay for a better Minnesota, by electing lying, criminal leftists.

  5. mjb003 Avatar
    mjb003

    We are a consequence-free society. They city officials face no consequence for not removing snow. The people who leave their cars parked in a snow emergency face no consequence for leaving the car. I’ve read the people who don’t shovel their sidewalks and are fined don’t face consequences for not paying the fine.

    Society as a whole faces consequences, sure, but apparently many people have yet to figure out how to vote to change that.

  6. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    “Sportsmen’s Show pulls out of St. Paul after more than 50 years”

    “Cenaiko said he tried to explain the decision not to return to St. Paul in a recent Facebook post, but he chose to take down the online announcement after being deluged with negative feedback from St. Paul and Minneapolis supporters.”

    “It was just vitriol and hate,” he said in an interview Monday. “I think some people are upset that anyone would be critical of anything in either city, they were critical of our business decision, they were critical of us.”

    “There wasn’t enough inventory for a lot of the marine dealers to do multiple shows, and a lot of the resorts and lodges did not want to come down to the Twin Cities, either St. Paul or Minneapolis,” Cenaiko said.”

    Bigots and White Supremacists shunning the vibrant diversity.

  7. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    Completely missed your post BH.

    St. Paul may have lost the White Supremacist Sportsman show, but they still got Cinco de Mayo, the Hmong fest and the Somali hootenanny, which is what is important to the citizens.

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