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Ginny Martin

St. Paul, MN
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Posted on 10/26/10 at 04:33 pm in response to New poll: Dayton is ahead; Horner gets no bump when voters offered ranked-choice option

Or, Brian, as a positive outcome.
When people say, tax the rich, tax the other guy, they are recognizing that the rich have underpaid their taxes for years, despite the fact that they are doing very well, thank you. We know that the top 1 or 2% have about 1/3 of the total wealth of this country. We know they are slackers and have not done their share. We know that it's time for them to act like responsible citizens of this country and this state and behave like adults, and not try to...

Posted on 10/25/10 at 07:26 pm in response to New poll: Dayton is ahead; Horner gets no bump when voters offered ranked-choice option

Swift gives us nothing to respond to because there really is no actual sensible argument that follows evidence and reason.
Since we cannot really respond to ts, I think that's what we should do--not respond. Just gives him airs.

Posted on 10/25/10 at 04:56 pm in response to New poll: Dayton is ahead; Horner gets no bump when voters offered ranked-choice option

As long as we're talking about corruption hearings, let do what the UN is urging us to do: investigate and prosecute those who are responsible for the torture policies of this government. That includes all the lawyers. I think Wall Street executives should be investigated, as well. Let's uncover (although I don't think we can prosecute) those corporate heads (especially the ones who received bailouts) who send jobs overseas. Or have their HQs in some tax-free space. Let's investigate why...

Posted on 10/25/10 at 01:46 pm in response to New poll: Dayton is ahead; Horner gets no bump when voters offered ranked-choice option

TJ: It depends on what you are spending money for? Education? An educated populace is needed to make a state (and country) prosperous. So is a healthy population. And a state in which people can safely drive over bridges and on highways and roads. And have an adequate court system. And etc. etc..
Big government is not the goal. Good government that meets the needs of all residents is.
There are facts. Minnesota as the 'state that works' back in the 70s and 80s. Other states like...

Posted on 10/25/10 at 12:41 pm in response to New poll: Dayton is ahead; Horner gets no bump when voters offered ranked-choice option

Minnesotans seem to finally be waking up. After 8 years of the Pawlenty regime, we will finally have a governor who can see something beyond "cut taxes" and emasculate government. Dayton looks at the whole and will try to build Minnesota back up to its former high standing in education, health care, and general good government and governance.

Posted on 10/25/10 at 12:58 pm in response to Presidential visits: Will they help Dayton and Clark?

Wildly unpopular president? Hardly. Nationwide, 47% (Rasmussen) still approve of the job he's doing. In Minnesota it's higher.
I recommend commenters stick to the facts instead of more vitriol and name calling.
I love Obama's recommendation that Republicans meditate. They might start finding out about their inner selves and what moves them.

Posted on 10/18/10 at 02:35 pm in response to Star Tribune endorses Horner; ignores Vikings, client conflicts

Taxed enough already? Emmer is disingenuous at best when he claims he will not raise taxes. Property taxes will go up and they are often regressive, especially for older people whose incomes are small and fixed.
TEA? Have you compared your current tax rates, federal and state, with taxes of 10 years ago? Taxed enough already says only that I'm not interested in maintaining this state and its resources and its infrastructure and its educational system and its pretty solid (despite...

Posted on 10/15/10 at 01:16 pm in response to Old mug shots, new guv poll

Why would Bachmann debate Clark? She is doing just fine with her ignorant and inaccurate slams against Clark and all Democrats, liberals, progressives, socialists, Obama, what have you. She could only lose a debate up against a smart informed woman like Clark.
I think that's why Dayton's numbers are rising. People are seeing that Emmer would take us nowhere except further down--when he bothers to come up with statistics and factsw at all.

Posted on 10/15/10 at 03:16 pm in response to A day with a homeless family: Working to turn their lives around

The disappearance of jobs in this country is actually a global occurrence, and this is a world-wide economic crisis. The jobs that have disappeared are not coming back, no matter how much we prop up the economy. Companies have taken jobs by outsourcing them (when was the last time you got an native English speaker in a call center?), through technology, and through loss of manufacturing jobs so that most jobs here are service jobs and most don't pay well.
Upward social mobility doesn't...

Posted on 10/15/10 at 12:46 pm in response to A day with a homeless family: Working to turn their lives around

One more thing: I think all elected persons who are making decisions on behalf of our poor and vulnerable should spend at least one day and preferably a week as a homeless person; and as a schoolteacher or aid, and as a person with a serious illness who can't get medical care, and the people facing foreclosure. And the people who advocate such inhumanity should do the same before they start preaching.