Minnesota Closed To Celebrate The Fourth Of July

This so called impasse is over whether rich people should pay more in taxes. So they are closing the whole state of Minnesota on behalf of the rich people. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers fought and died for our right to get rich, rock and roll all night and party evah-reee day. That's what it was all about, from Fort Ticonderoga to the Battle of Gettysburg.

No taxation without representation. And slavery had to go too. Moving through 2011 the time has past for backsliding. Our nation's liberty depends on untramelled wealth moving through the Cayman Islands and the tax rates on the rich must be lowered to right the sinking economic ship.

Who cares if a few fucking penguins in Minnesota suffer? There are greater principles at stake. Don't be so naive. Jerks. God Bless America.

Tara and Jose Garcia wanted to spend the holiday weekend camping with their four children.

But a Minnesota government shutdown prevented them from pitching a tent at a state park. So they checked out county campgrounds, only to find those parks overflowing with people.

"It's bulls--t," said Tara Garcia of Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. "I am just feeling, 'Are you kidding? C'mon!'"

So the Garcias parked their minivan at Ft. Snelling, a state historical site nestled on the edge of the Mississippi River, just outside Minneapolis. That too was closed. They wandered the desolate paths anyway, with nerf guns in hand and a gaggle of kids, all under age 8.

After Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders failed to reach agreement on a $5 billion budget deficit Thursday, state offices, parks, highway rest areas and a state zoo were shuttered. In addition, 22,000 government workers were hit with layoff notices.

When negotiations broke down, the two sides were about $1.4 billion apart with Democrats insisting on a tax increase for the rich and Republicans strongly opposed. The partisan impasse angered many people.

"You have a job to do, figure out how to do your job," said Laura Sandquist, 27, of Bloomington, Minnesota, who was at Ft. Snelling with her husband. The pair were not there to visit, but to unload their bikes and go for a ride along the river.

[Reuters]