Discussion: John Oliver Put Up A Billboard Asking North Dakotans To 'Be Angry' About Lack Of Oil Regulations (VIDEO)

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Not to mention crime and drug use are spiraling out of control and the cost of living is/was skyrocketing until worldwide oil prices plummeted.

How about them thar Big-State Problems, North Dakoty?

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FIFA and oil. whatta match!

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Let’s bring thousands of manual laborers, have little to no oversight of their employers, shitty labor laws, and hard, demanding jobs that require lots of physical work and long hours.

Holy shit, methamphetamine use is out of control? HOW THE HELL DID THIS HAPPEN?

Signed,
North Dakota

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FIFA headquartered in Bismark, ND does have a ring to it.

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ND has only 880,000 citizens, yet it gets 2 Senators, both of which are DEEPLY in the pockets of the Oil Industry.
They pride themselves on being “Conservative” with a Capital “C”, Pro-Military, anti-tax, anti-immigrant, anti-drug, anti-abortion (very high percentage of Catholics/Lutherans in ND) and typically RURAL state with large military bases (huge Air Force base in Minot) and No Income Taxes.
We joke about how there are only 3 reasons anyone lives in ND:

  1. They were born on the farm there and can’t escape.
  2. They were ordered to go there (military) and can’t escape.
  3. They have NO STATE INCOME TAXES and can’t afford to escape.
    You Bet’cha Yaw.
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That man working 69 hours straight, no one asked him if he volunteered to work extra hours in addition to his regular shift. Also, no one asked him how much he earned for that amount of overtime. The wages paid in the oilfield can be so lucrative that young men ignore the risks involved and put their lives and physical mobility on the line, all for the sake of earning a few more thousand dollars. North Dakota may be the worst, but it’s certainly not the only bad player in the game.

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. . . it can be put in the politician’s own account at the end of the campaign.

What. The. Fuck?

Bribing public officials has always been legal in North Dakota?

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What could possibly go wrong?

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I worked in a Wyoming boom town in the late seventies early eighties. When it was over we left a couple man camps and a few piles of rusting pipe and other metal. When they leave No Dak the frackers are going to leave a hell of a lot more than that. Its going to be a toxic hell hole.

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I mean, yeah, sure, I can see them passing that after they find out they have recoverable oil, but always?

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ND has a population of about 700,000. It does have an income tax although it’s been decreased, especially on the wealthy and corporations, over the past few years. The GOPers are trying to get rid of it completely, but not there yet.

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compliance offers

“compliance officers”