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Minnesota has a population of less than 6 million. It also has a $6 billion deficit. That’s $1,000 for every man, woman, child, and Rep. Ilhan Omar brother, husband, and unclassified family member in the state.
Better still Minnesota’s last budget was $72 billion. Compare that to Missouri which has a larger population and a $54 billion budget. Or Colorado, slightly smaller, which has a $38 billion budget.
In 2019, when Gov. Tim Walz first took office, Minnesota’s budget was $40 billion. That’s up more than $32 billion in 5 years. Or almost double.
Based on this fantastic track record, Gov. Walz recently replied that he was open to a 2028 presidential run. “I would certainly consider that.”
Meanwhile what was supposed to be a $5 billion budget deficit is now a $6 billion budget deficit. A billion here and a billion there, and you’re looking at real money.
In a true sign of leadership, Gov. Walz is taking full responsibility for the problem by blaming Trump. “Basically, the only thing that’s changed since November is, is Donald Trump’s chaos to the economy,” he complained about his previous claim that the state has a balanced budget.
But it is a mystery where all that money is going what with the state’s sensible fiscal spending on $250 million in Somali food welfare fraud and autism fraud that shot up from $6 million to $192 million in 5 years.
So it’s a mystery where all that money is going, but based on that previous track record, it appears to be paying for trips to Mecca and Walz’s failed educational reforms which tanked the system.
The massive $2.2 billion education spending bill passed by Minnesota Democrats last year officially brought up spending to $7,281 per pupil, but not only is there little evidence that the per pupil spending ratio leads to improved education outcomes with some schools in the state that have been spending as much as $31,000 per student producing zero percent proficiency, but much of the money actually went to putting more of Education Minnesota (EM) teachers’ union members along with more administrators, school nurses and social workers on the payroll, and enacting a controversial “ethnic studies” program that critics say brings racism into schools.
In 2017, the year before the election that put Walz in charge of Minnesota, solid majorities of students were proficient in reading and math, and even science scores in the state were passable. Walz however ran as an educator and promised that he could do better.
In 2017, 59% of Minnesota students tested as proficient in math. By 2024, that number had dropped catastrophically by more than 13% down to 45.5%.
With a track record like that, why not run for president? It still beats the track records of potential opponents like Gov. Newsom and Mayor ‘Pete’ Buttigieg who ran their respective state and city into the ground.
Time for Walz to put on his best unused duck hunting gear and talk about all the times he lied about his military service so he could rob taxpayers blind and turn the money over to Somalia.
Do Democrats view the almost doubling of government spending in five years as a bad thing? And if so, is it because the increase wasn’t enough? They are the party of big government. You can’t have an ever growing government without ever growing government spending. I suspect Gov Walz views this increase as a success and wants to do similar at the federal level. Maybe he can add to the Covid spending levels which hasn’t gone away even though Covid spending has.
Of course the flip side is that money has to come from somewhere. Either through increased revenue or printing money and causing inflation which is sometimes called a tax.
p.s. The Feeding our Future fraud comes from the federal budget, not Minnesota’s. The Autism fraud comes from Medicaid and is money spent by both state and federal.
The autism fraud is just the beginning of medicaid fraud. There’s the anxiety/psychiatry disability fraud, the trans disability fraud, and the list goes on.
Just HOW STUPID are people in MN? Seriously! Is that entire State MENTALLY ILL? I know not ALL of them, but if a complete FRAUDULENT NITWIT CLOWN like Walz can be elected Governor you just have to ASK! Quite possibly there’s MASSIVE VOTE FRAUD that answers the question. I know they’ve had some doozies since Jesse hit office and Gov. Pawlenty may have been the ONLY one that did a decent job of Governing.
I hope this tampon obsessed buffoon does run.
Low-information voters need constant reminders of the sheer bullshit the DNC is steeped in.
[Q] What’s the best argument against democracy?
[A] A five minute conversion with your average voter.
Dry and wry, the Greenfield way.
Love his sense of humor.
We sure don’t need any UN/CFR Globalists running things Clinton(Bill)Obama and Biden were bad enough
Georgia was running a surplus when jimmy carter was elected governor, and a deficit shortly thereafter, yet somehow the idiot got elected president. People that wouldn’t vote for him for governor again voted for him for president. I hope walz does run though. He and his psychotic wife make good faces of the democrat party.