Comments on: Meet the Next Senator from North Dakota http://www.frumforum.com/meet-the-next-senator-from-north-dakota Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: balconesfault http://www.frumforum.com/meet-the-next-senator-from-north-dakota/comment-page-1#comment-78993 balconesfault Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:40:53 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=19271#comment-78993 <b>North Dakota’s unemployment rate is a startlingly low 4.1 percent, the lowest in the nation. </b> Interesting fact about North Dakota - while the US population grew by about 1/3 between 1980 and 2008 ... adding 80 million people ... North Dakota's population has actually shrunk by 2% over those 28 years. Perhaps growth is not the panacea that people so often claim it to be. North Dakota’s unemployment rate is a startlingly low 4.1 percent, the lowest in the nation.

Interesting fact about North Dakota – while the US population grew by about 1/3 between 1980 and 2008 … adding 80 million people … North Dakota’s population has actually shrunk by 2% over those 28 years.

Perhaps growth is not the panacea that people so often claim it to be.

]]> By: handworn http://www.frumforum.com/meet-the-next-senator-from-north-dakota/comment-page-1#comment-78985 handworn Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:52:24 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=19271#comment-78985 And thank God. There's too much damn populism in this country. Populism leads to extremism and shortsightedness, I believe. Looks to me as though Hoeven's successes are due to his success in staying away from that kind of electoral crack. And thank God. There’s too much damn populism in this country. Populism leads to extremism and shortsightedness, I believe. Looks to me as though Hoeven’s successes are due to his success in staying away from that kind of electoral crack.

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