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Jon Erik Kingstad

Afton, MN
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2 years 44 weeks

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Posted on 09/07/11 at 02:33 pm in response to Here's what you can expect to hear from Congress this fall

As long as "making Obama a one term President" is the primary goal of the Republican Party, there will be no jobs bill. The Republicans demonstrated their callous disregard for the public interest during the ridiculous stalemate over the debt ceiling. What makes Mr. Ornstein so confident that these bozos have suddenly come to their senses? I fully expect the Republicans to continue their war by refusing to pass a budget and shut the government down hoping to gain political points for this...

Posted on 09/07/11 at 11:05 am in response to Can Mitt Romney's jobs plan create 11 million jobs in four years?

A realistic jobs plan? No. And Romney is the supposedly sane Republican leader?

How is lowering taxes any more going to create employment when the corporations are sitting on record piles of cash from profits and government handouts? We've had 10 years of the Bush one time tax cuts which created the record deficits and unemployment we now have. So Romney wants more of what's already been proven to have failed.
I suppose it makes sense if he's trying to appeal to his party's base...

Posted on 09/06/11 at 05:12 pm in response to Shawn Lawrence Otto fights against attacks on science in this country

Mr. Swift @ 18: I realize that you will accept nothing less than Rush Limbaugh, the only true authority on anything, but it was not just "East Anglia" which exonerated itself. According to a sourced Wikipedia article:

"In response to the controversy, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released statements supporting the scientific consensus, with the AAAS concluding "based...

Posted on 09/05/11 at 12:09 pm in response to A very alienated Republican professional tells all

I read the whole piece and it is spot on. His quote from Hannah Arendt gives me pause: "As Hannah Arendt observed, a disciplined minority of totalitarians can use the instruments of democratic government to undermine democracy itself.”"

If what he says is evident to him, how many others in the Republican party agree but follow the Republican party line notwithstanding?

In the concluding months of the 2008 Presidential campaign, there was a lot of evidence of behavior and...

Posted on 09/06/11 at 09:37 am in response to A very alienated Republican professional tells all

Mr. Swift@5: ". . .allow me to provide some much needed insight for MinnPost readers that are mystified why middle, and lower classes of citizens stand against raising taxes for the wealthy."

The more you try to explain this "insight", the less I understand. I get that you don't like Lofgren's unflattering portrayal of the Republican Party. Your comments suggest to me you either didn't read the piece or cannot contradict him. You might not like what he has to say but that doesn't make...

Posted on 09/06/11 at 11:06 am in response to A very alienated Republican professional tells all

Thanks, Mr. Swift, but I think you completely missed Lofgren's point. You and your GOP friends may disagree with his point, namely that the GOP wealthy elite doesn't care about you or your friends or what you and they think. But that's his point. The GOP elite uses and manipulates you and your friends to advance their own agenda, which is to protect them, i.e. the wealthy elite, from taxes, regulation, etc. And he reinforces his point by showing how the Republican Congress made a deal with...

Posted on 09/06/11 at 01:18 pm in response to A very alienated Republican professional tells all

So, Mr. Swift, I take it you support repeal of Social Security and Medicare? If not, why not?

Posted on 09/06/11 at 11:35 pm in response to A very alienated Republican professional tells all

Mr. Larson@26: Sure there are "DEM" elites and "liberal elites". I think they support progressive taxation, more equal distribution of wealth, reform and regulation of financial institutions, environmental protection, single payer health care, pro-choice, pro-gay rights, and a lot of other issues like that. I've heard Warren Buffet talk about progressive taxation recently and he seems to agree with me and other progressives that the rich like him are taxed too little and taxes need to be...

Posted on 09/05/11 at 09:13 am in response to How much is enough?

How can anyone rationally discuss "military spending" when it's not even clear what this country spends on the military? I'd like to know, for example, what happened to the $2.3 trillion in unaccounted for defense spending Rumsfelt admitted to on September 10, 2001?

http://www.infowars.com/rumsfeld-says-2-3-...

Posted on 09/01/11 at 11:04 am in response to MnDOT disses 'lower, cheaper' St. Croix bridge plan

# 1: Ross: Your comment belongs on the Steve Dornfield piece on the gas tax.