Are you ashamed of the state you live in?

[Iceberg Louie]

84. My two cents re: North Dakota

ND is currently one of the few states (if not the only) with a budget surplus, due largely to the oil boom in the western part of the state. Instead of investing in our crumbling infrastructure (now being exponentially overloaded by the influx of 21st century Joad families), raising teacher's salaries (45th in the nation) to meet with the skyrocketing cost of living (in some areas on par with Manhattan), or, hell, even giving tax relief to long-term residents, we instead invest it into overturning Roe v. Wade.

We may have squeaked Heidi Heitkamp through into the Senate against price-gouging real estate parasite Rick Berg, but our elected officials are doing a piss-poor job representing the brand of high plains common sense which we have historically been known for.