[Fishhead]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A budget stalemate forced a virtual full shut down of the Minnesota government on Friday and left only a limited array of state services in operation over the busy holiday weekend.
Visitors won't be able to go to the state parks or the zoo, and travelers will find the highway rest stops shuttered. Road construction projects will cease, as will licensing for teachers and businesses


Many social service agencies will lose their funding, cutting state support for programs such as job training and homelessness prevention. Those that don't have reserves will likely close their doors.
And up to 23,000 state workers are scheduled to be laid off, though they will continue to get health benefits and can return to their jobs when the budget impasse is resolved.
Basic health and safety services will continue, a judge ruled on Wednesday. The state must continue funding custodial care for residents in prisons, treatment centers and nursing homes. The state troopers will continue to patrol. The state universities will also remain open.

[Fishhead]

Meanwhile we have posters running around this site making claims that the U.S. is on the road to recovery.

[jgray]

And the world will not end....

Not much you described would qualify as a government necessity anyway. Zoos, rest stops, licensing, meh.

[Emily_Haines]

All because the evil GOP refuses to allow a tax increase on individuals making 180K+ or couples making 300K+.

[obamaismyuncle]

All because the evil GOP refuses to allow a tax increase on individuals making 180K+ or couples making 300K+.

this^^^

[Emily_Haines]

this^^^

There used to be a time when the wealthy paid much more in taxes and we got along just fine. Now the corrupt GOP thinks they should pay zero all under the guise of job creation and growth. Bunch of crap if you ask me. This people live like kings, while the middle class is being destroyed at the hands of the GOP.

[Fishhead]

Soon to be no middle class.........

[nosniboR11]

All because the evil GOP refuses to allow a tax increase on individuals making 180K+ or couples making 300K+.

this^^^

lol, maybe if the gov was not trying to spend his way out of it, and one more thing raising taxes on the rich is not the way to go, they already pay all the taxes, idiots

[Emily_Haines]

lol, maybe if the gov was not trying to spend his way out of it, and one more thing raising taxes on the rich is not the way to go, they already pay all the taxes, idiots

Cry me a river. The wealthiest 1% own like 90% of the stock market and 60% of all the assets in this country. They can afford and should pay WAY more than they do. I hope Dayton keeps it shut down until all these GOP clowns quit.

[encephalization]

And here is me moving from Europe to Minnesota at the end of the month.

Getting abit worried now to be honest.

[chilidog]

Why should one be penalized because they were more successful in life?

[Emily_Haines]

Why should one be penalized because they were more successful in life?

Life ain't fair. They don't like they are free to move to Florida or Texas.

[Fishhead]

And here is me moving from Europe to Minnesota at the end of the month.

WHY?

[encephalization]

WHY?

Offer from grad school with full funding. Couldn't really turn it down.

Am I screwed?

[maersksealand]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A budget stalemate forced a virtual full shut down of the Minnesota government on Friday and left only a limited array of state services in operation over the busy holiday weekend.
Visitors won't be able to go to the state parks or the zoo, and travelers will find the highway rest stops shuttered. Road construction projects will cease, as will licensing for teachers and businesses


Many social service agencies will lose their funding, cutting state support for programs such as job training and homelessness prevention. Those that don't have reserves will likely close their doors.
And up to 23,000 state workers are scheduled to be laid off, though they will continue to get health benefits and can return to their jobs when the budget impasse is resolved.
Basic health and safety services will continue, a judge ruled on Wednesday. The state must continue funding custodial care for residents in prisons, treatment centers and nursing homes. The state troopers will continue to patrol. The state universities will also remain open.

it's all staged dumbazz...the goal is to show the sheeple that increasing taxes and Gov. spending is the only way out. They will use Minessota to discredit any attempt to control the national debt and to promote increasing taxes.

there was really no reason to shut down the Gov...it's easy to cut spending if they where serious about it. they try to scare the Gov. workers by saying they want to laid them off...this is only so they will vote more Gov., to understand they have to worship the Gov. or else they will become homeless...

it's so much to this story you simply can't understand...better stick with you garbage scavenging and let the politics for the informed ones.

[wtf]

garbage trucks running?

you must be hard thinking about that

[opie1988]

Why should one be penalized because they were more successful in life?

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Why should those who have the work ethic, brains, & balls to have found some sort of success be forced to pay for those who haven't? This is how capitalism works.

Why would we choose to champion mediocrity?

[Dirty Sanchez]

Bring back Jessie "The Body"...he'll restore order

[jarvol]

Not much you described would qualify as a government necessity anyway. Zoos, rest stops, licensing, meh.

Exactly. Government on every level has a spending problem not a revenue problem. State governments should cut their budgets in half. HALF!

[FuzzyDunlop]

SBR needs to take it over, rename it East Dakota, profit.

[maersksealand]

Meanwhile we have posters running around this site making claims that the U.S. is on the road to recovery.

US will most likely recover for the next 1-2 years...I will explain you later why

[tblues2005]

The whole government right now is one big huge mess. The GOP is sure wrecking the country and they are sure showing why also. The GOP is so stubborn on anything that wants to be done here to raise more revenue for the government. It is sure going to be an interesting month of July in states and federal level on these budgets.

[BookiesBernanke]

A-U-S-T-E-R-I-T-Y Measures

Coming to a local near you

[Fishhead]

All hell breaking loose in Minnesota right now............

[Boscoe]

All hell breaking loose in Minnesota right now............

because the zoo is closed?

[Fishhead]

because the zoo is closed?

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Not sure, Mankato is just nuts right now.

[dherd]

conservatives run for office on a platform which says govt doesnt work - then when they attain office they prove it.

[donkdown]

riots going on in this shit hole of a city!!

[FreeFall]

How many states out of 50 is this one? How many people out of the whole US is this? God this is so insignificant. Yes we are in a recession this happens.

[topgame85]

Even horse track Canterbury park is shut down .

[obamaismyuncle]

I can't even cash in a $50 lotto ticket winner

[jjgold]

Minn a real dumb state
IQ level is very low there
people are hamburgers
no big deal
let them sink
we do not need them

[19th Hole]

Offer from grad school with full funding. Couldn't really turn it down.

Am I screwed?

Not with full funding.

[19th Hole]

When did Greece annex Minnesota??

[obamaismyuncle]

Minn a real dumb state
IQ level is very low there
people are hamburgers
no big deal
let them sink
we do not need them

Coming from a guy who lives in a state that's filled with river rats the size of people The state of New Jersey is like one big truckstop..