Some days are busier than others

There’s just so much to comment on today. First we have a full-throated whine about concealed carry. Two questions: Does anyone really believe that a concealed carry permit holder shot and paralyzed a child and it never made the front page of the Red Star?

More importantly: Why do I have to justify my right to bear arms? So what if Crime didn’t go down? I’d ask Rybak and McManus why it’s going up, not CC holders. I have a right to protect my person, my property and my family, end of story. I don’t care if you don’t like my gun, I don’t like your politics. No one needs to make a case for the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS! Unlike abortion, that right is actually in the Constitution.

I have been avoiding comment on the renters credit story but I guess I have to say something after the latest editorial. Renters credit is a make work program for government workers. The smart thing to do if you think taxes are too high is to lower them across the board, but that helps everyone. So MN devises a complex scheme to keep raising property taxes and then gives some money back to their favorite group, renters. I remember renters credit checks; they come in August and are usually amount to a few hundred dollars. The perverse part is that the renters dropped from the system are the ones with the highest incomes. Further proof that liberals oppose any cut in a govt. program, even programs benefiting people who make over $45,000. I say we end the whole damned thing!

Finally, some sound advice from the CEO of Polaris. Quit looking back to the glory days of tax and spend, they are gone and will never come back. Instead look to the future, where MN companies compete with China and India and the state of Minnesota not only has to compete with Texas and North Carolina, but also Beijing and Bangladesh.

Every company I have ever worked for asked thier people to do more with less each year. Anyone in industry understands continuous improvement, quality controls and budgetary restrictions. Liberals believe, falsely, that government is immune and has no need to streamline. But, as the welfare states of Europe are learning, companies, people and capital are extremely fluid and can move faster than ever before.

The reality is that we need to be on the leading edge of lean government so that we don’t get left in the dust like Germany. Minnesotans are terribly creative, why do we accept a 1970’s style government in a 2010 economy? If the DFL is so progressive, why do they spend so much time looking in the rearview mirror?