thinktank wrote:
Finally, regarding “freezing cold and icy roads which makes people not want to leave their houses all winter”—the fact that Minnesota is the coldest states is now becoming a selling point due to the climate crisis.
There’s a major, major bubble that’s going to eventually pop. Minnesota stands to gain when it does. #1 state best equipped to handle climate change? Minnesota.
I can't even begin a conversation with someone who holds these kinds of views.
Minnesota is going to be the place to be. Because climate change gonna wipe out everywhere else.
My word. You really do live up to your username.
Minnesotans spend their money HERE in the summer and ELSEWHERE in the winter if they can afford it.
That's just what we do.
You ever tried to bundle up your family and go anywhere in January?
It's not fun.
Fact is that with a one vote majority, one party in this state passed every extreme idea it had in its platform, even though 80 of 87 counties in the state voted for the other party.
Inlcuded was a "voter reform" that gave drivers licenses to non-citizens and forcibly registers every voter who either turns 18 or gets a drivers license.
Pretty much giving cover for endless ballot box stuffing (that's the point).
If you're not concerned about lax integrity in a general election because it helps your side, you should be VERY concerned about it in primary elections, which is what allows the same grifting scumbags to sit at the trough for life.
I have a few engineer friends and relatives in some of those great "minnesota companies" you hear about pretty worried about the future of their companies in this state.
Minnesota is becoming a very costly place to do business.
California has a huge coastline which gives it a geographic stranglehold on the port and shipping industry that companies can't get around. As a state we can't afford to alienate business in the same way.
Minnesota was a centrist state for a very long time where the minority party in divided government kept the worst impulses of the other side from coming to pass. That went out the window completely last year.
Housing prices are through the roof not because of any intrinsic value or uptick in economic activity, but because of
1. the explosion of new people looking for housing in this country
2. the runaway inflation caused by both parties spending like drunken sailors, not even pretending to care about paying for ANYTHING anymore with tax revenue, they are now just openly mass taxing you with inflation (which is the direct result of the federal reserve printing money to purchase the government's newly created debt) like they did on a much smaller scale pre-2008, and went thermonuclear with after covid. .
There are a small few things they could do like putting a halt to companies and investment interests buying up houses just to hold and leverage as collateral, but there aren't enough principled people in government to fill a church pew, and there would also be downward side effects to that if it wasn't done right that would make those same investments interests quit lending money to people.
