Republican run North Dakota: an economic success ignored by the Leftist media – it doesn’t “fit”

 By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer

  A stunning story about the success of conservative Republican governance is taking place daily in North Dakota, and you’re never going to be told about it by our liberal media elites.  The victory of elected officials who take seriously their oaths to honor and serve the public trust serves in sharp contrast to the abject failure of Democrat governance in Detroit. 

 NEWSMAX Magazine’s feature this month tells of North Dakota’s unemployment rate of just 3.5% compared to the national disgrace of this administration’s 9% of Americans out of work.  Over the last ten years, the state “has created over 50,000 net new jobs” with average wage increases hiking to $11,287!” 

 Reporter David A. Patten ticks off such amazing state statistics as an economic growth of 6.68% over the last decade with the country’s overall growth is stagnant at “less than 1.5% for the first half of this year.” 

 An export growth of 303% during the Bush and Obama governance  years coupled with more than doubling North Dakota’s gross domestic product would seem worthy of enormous praise in anyone’s play book.  Yet, we hear virtually nothing about why that state is succeeding in the face of horrific economic and regulatory policies for its lignite coal and Bakken shale deposits.

 Governor Jack Dalrymple and former Governor John Hoven have created a model that every state could implement even without their own Bakken.  NEWSMAX said the two GOP leaders “embarked on a plan to make North Dakota as attractive to prospective businesses as possible.”

 Fiscal discipline throughout state government, keeping taxes low, and keeping a rein on regulatory abuse helped.  Their “Legacy Fund” that prevents withdrawals before 2017 wisely uses surplus cycles to even out down times in state budgets, sound financial management used every day in the private sector.

 One construction company is reported to have sent “every Kenworth they had in Alaska plus a new Tri Drive tractor and lowboy” into the Bakken state in the last six months, much more than they moved up north in the past six years.   When I saw CNBC cut into their North Dakota success story for a simplistic “news breaking now” feature, I suddenly realized that our media are so biased that they won’t even reward success if it’s GOP originated.  How sad.

 SOURCE:  David A. Patten. “What America Can Learn From the North Dakota Miracle.” NEWSMAX MAGAZINE.  November 2011, pg. 16.

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