GOB Radio LIVE with Fredo (@NotJeff_) 09/28/21
Added 2021-09-29 02:55:57 +0000 UTC
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Somali and Hmong are like a tale of two ethnic groups. Here's my general breakdown as a Minnesotan. Traditionally the Hmong neighborhood was in St. Paul but they've dispersed out generally into the east side of the MSP metro with plenty in western Wisconsin. Kids (40 and under) generally will speak Hmong at home with their family but are otherwise assimilated and will date and marry outside their ethnic group. Big into hunting and farming. Most trend slightly conservative and there are plenty of Kulak Hmongs who own construction businesses and invest in real estate. Traditional American success story. Their wave of immigration was spurred by the fact that they were allied with US forces in Southeast Asia during and after the Vietnam war and the powers that be that succeeded after we failed there didn't like that all that much, as you can imagine. Somalis were centered in one neighborhood in Minneapolis for a very long time. A lot drove taxis, had small coffee shops or corner stores. The remittance fraud you spoke about in the Game Theory episode is talked about but I couldn't say how widespread it actually is. There are now some groupings in rural Minnesota, Iowa, and the Dakotas that work at pork processing plants. Not nearly as financially successful as the Hmong. Still, their kids are Americanized to some degree. Tend to still live in certain neighborhoods but the kids will drink alcohol and eat bacon and there are plenty of young Somali woman who walk around sans hijab. Nice people but they've seemed to have had a harder time assimilating. I don't know if it's for a lack of trying or if it's because their starting point was a bit further away than other immigrant groups but interesting to consider nonetheless. EDIT: But yeah the NGOs are definitely a factor.
eatpuddinggood
2021-10-04 16:20:19 +0000 UTCAs a way to regain fuel tax revenue lost by the increase in remote working, I have heard the following idea kicked around by decision makers at the state level. A payroll tax on the what the worker would have driven if they were driving to their regular workplace. Basically someone would go to Google Map, get the mileage between home and office, take the avg fuel economy of the worker’s vehicle and figure out how much fuel they would have bought. Then take what would have been taxed in the fuel purchase out of their pay.
StickRedPill
2021-10-03 17:26:31 +0000 UTC
