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1 posted on 03/15/2017 5:14:35 AM PDT by SJackson
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It all comes down to the rats


2 posted on 03/15/2017 5:19:03 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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That’s the latest news from Lake Dough-be-Gone. The taxpayer’s dough be gone


4 posted on 03/15/2017 5:23:33 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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What is the ‘other’ common-thread of America’s troubled cities?


5 posted on 03/15/2017 5:24:52 AM PDT by blam
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Rejoice in the destruction. They’re “fighting for you”, remember?


6 posted on 03/15/2017 5:25:55 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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I live next to the city and I have seen its’ decline. Cedar Riverside is Somalia Part 2. So much of the rest isn’t worth going to.


7 posted on 03/15/2017 5:27:04 AM PDT by shelterguy
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I think this is a little overstated. Yes, Minneapolis is a debt-lover’s paradise. Yes, it is a welfare haven where the deadbeats prey on the productive. And yes, it’s a pretentious Potemkin village that tries too hard to be taken seriously.

But it is not a crime-ridden hellhole, a sort of frozen Beirut. It is as corrupt as any Dem-run city always is, with gold-plated sports stadiums being built over taxpayer objections, bridges collapsing because of mysterious construction shortcuts, and streets that mountain goats refuse to travel. And most of these ills would be relieved if a conservative ran the place.

But you can walk around downtown at night without worrying about getting shot or mugged. And the Twin Cities are mostly suburbs anyway; the white flight out of the urban center started decades ago.

By the way, Peter Collier is another reformed radical, a close associate of David Horowitz, for those who don’t know.


8 posted on 03/15/2017 5:35:29 AM PDT by IronJack
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Pittsburgh is next.

The current Mayor is an in-the-closet leftist activist kook. And he’s building his base of equally radical supporters within city limits.


12 posted on 03/15/2017 6:05:24 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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This is a good article but I'm not sure the underlying premise is true. The conventional wisdom among conservatives is that liberalism and Democrats are the cause of the destruction of these cities, but over time I've gotten more convinced that they're actually symptoms of the problem, not the cause.

Urban areas simply attract a lot of people who have an inborn aversion to conservative principles like freedom, self-reliance, small government, etc.

13 posted on 03/15/2017 6:08:54 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (President Donald J. Trump ... Making America Great Again, 140 Characters at a Time)
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http://100percentfedup.com/minnesota-somalis-get-violent-attack-police-during-protest-at-block-party-video/


15 posted on 03/15/2017 6:18:44 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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It’s called the DFL - NOT the ‘DFLP.’

Clearly the writer has not spent any real time in Minnesota or he would understand this.


23 posted on 03/15/2017 6:58:18 AM PDT by BBB333 (The power of TRUMP compels you!)
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” . . . Minneapolis residents face daunting economic challenges . . . ‘

Nothing that a few thousand more Somali immigrants couldn’t cure, right?


25 posted on 03/15/2017 7:28:17 AM PDT by Stosh
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LIBs all deserve what they get. I laugh at their perpetual lunacy.


26 posted on 03/15/2017 9:30:14 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation camp?)
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North Minneapolis has been crime infested area for at least 3 decades. I visited the area in 2004 to see my uncle’s old house he use to live in in the 1940’s. I use to work in the area in the 1970’s and 80’s.

I saw several blocks where people were sitting out on the front steps in the middle of a work day which I thought strange then realized they were probably unemployed.


27 posted on 03/15/2017 11:41:02 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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