Profile: Rich Goldsmith
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Crowdsourcing Minnesota’s Deficit
Minnesota is staring deep into an ever-widening abyss that, unfortunately, has gone from staring blankly back to a potentially $7 billion glare. And to find solutions to address the monumental clusterfuck that has become our state budget, the DFL held listening meetings across the state this past week looking for a magic bullet lodged in the minds of the "common people."
In other words, they're crowdsourcing the deficit.
Mn/DOT and Pres. Obama Team Up To Spend $263.5 million
Since the dark days of Clintonian diddling in the Oval Office, American citizens have done naught but despair at the state of democracy. From townships to state government and in our nation's capital, people were far more willing to trust stock brokers and mortgage lenders than to put even an ounce of faith in government's ability to do right by them. And who can blame them? From Jack Abramoff to Larry Craig, politicians firmly cemented a reputation for being all too willing to throughly sodomize anyone and everyone to get what they wanted.
What Does the Smart Grid Mean for Minnesota?
Even the most inebriated striped-shirt wearing douchebag unsteadily signaling for a cab after closing time at Drink can offer something for those truly motivated to accentuate the positive. So it is with the stimulus package recently signed into law as Minnesotans strain to understand what's in it for them.
Why the Stimulus Package Won't Work
The average politician maintains a tenuous grasp on reality, only deigning to view the world with lucid eyes every few years in the all too brief window of time surrounding elections.
You Can Call Me Sen. Al: Should Al Franken be Minnesota’s Senator Pro Tem?
Three months is long enough for Minnesota's unemployment rate to rise more than half a percentage point. It's enough to start and end a war in Gaza. It's even enough time for Christian Bale to go from being known as the much-lauded star of classics like Dark Knight and Swing Kids to the egotistical batshit douchebag who blames his bad behavior on his deep immersion in John Connor's mind.
