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Dennis Tester

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St. Paul, Minnesota
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Posted on 09/13/12 at 03:52 pm in response to Gov. Mark Dayton ‘distressed’ by current anti-tax mentality

Mitt Romney donated his entire inheritance to charity. You should read his bio before you assume you know him. He and his wife lived in a $75/month basement apartment when they were first married.

And Romney donated $4 million to charity last year. I wonder how much Dayton donated.

Posted on 09/13/12 at 07:59 am in response to Minnesota educators, policymakers train keen eye on Chicago strike: What's it all about?

Recent studies show that any advantage that a child gets from Head Start or similar early childhood program is lost by the 3rd grade. That's not much bang for your buck, imo and it's a scandal that the press doesn't report those results.

Posted on 09/12/12 at 11:14 am in response to The problem with asking: Are you better off than four years ago?

"Are you better off than you were four years ago," he clarified it by saying "Is it easier for you to go and buy things at the store?' "Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EvFQLhqWPQ

Counterfactuals? Give me a break.

If you answer Ronald Reagan's questions today, you have to consider...

Posted on 09/12/12 at 12:14 pm in response to The problem with asking: Are you better off than four years ago?

Ask yourself if it's possible for you to pay off your personal debt without getting a pay increase. Of course it is.

Posted on 09/12/12 at 05:49 pm in response to The problem with asking: Are you better off than four years ago?

Drill baby, drill. The price of gas was $3.99 at my neighborhood station today. On average, that's over $100 less per month of disposable income that a family could have spent elsewhere in the economy that they had four years ago.

If the president made it clear that we will be energy self-sufficient despite the protestations of the environmentalist wackos, by drilling for oil and gas everywhere on this continent, we not only would drive down domestic energy costs, but we would...

Posted on 09/12/12 at 11:16 am in response to Concordia University trying new tuition approach

do you think own stock?

Posted on 09/12/12 at 11:24 am in response to Concordia University trying new tuition approach

to put my oldest through Macalester. Even with financial aid.

Today he's making a nice living using technical skills that I taught him when he was in high school.

If you want the cost of something to increase, have government subsidize it. The reason the cost of higher education has skyrocketed is the same reason that the cost of health care has skyrocketed. Government subsidies.

Eliminate the Pell Grants and other government subsidies and watch the costs fall through...

Posted on 09/11/12 at 06:52 pm in response to More evidence that we see what we want to see, mostly for partisan reasons

85% of democrats are in denial, which makes sense to me.

Posted on 09/11/12 at 11:31 am in response to Supporters of proposed voting amendment rally in St. Paul

"According to [the latest KSTP/SurveyUSA] poll, 62 percent of Minnesotans support the idea of requiring photo ID's to vote on Election Day, while 31 percent oppose. Just 7 percent are undecided. A huge majority of Republicans, 87 percent, favor the amendment along with 65 percent of independent voters. Democrats oppose the measure by a 53 percent to 39 percent margin."

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Posted on 09/11/12 at 12:53 pm in response to Laura Ingraham: If Repubs can't beat Obama, they should disband

the percentage of people who say they are republicans is higher than the percentage of people who say they are democrats. It's been that way since Novermber 2010 and its now at the highest its ever been.

Aug 31, 2012
Republican - 37.6%
Democrat - 33.3%

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