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Posted by Kevin Bismark on August 01, 2005 at 17:46:05 from (205.188.117.66):
In Reply to: Re: Taxes posted by Dave H (MI) on August 01, 2005 at 16:15:32:
Don't think you would have to "cut" much here in Minnesota, the budgets balloon 10 percent a year and 100 percent increase in education spending in the last 10 years, they go out of their way to spend as much as possible, they have a state law that say's no public official can make more than 95 percent of the governor's salary, so then Ramsey county along with several others came up with way's to funnel the extra cash under the table, even when they were caught nothing happened. I worked in "Government" for 15 years before I got fed up with the waste, we couldn't have money for people to do real work, but we always had extra money for people to do no work, or what we called busy work, the department directors brother (he needed a free job so they invented a job for him) was never in the building for more than 4 hours a day, told everyone he "couldn't be bothered" and worked on his own stuff the whole time. The best one was when they were telling everyone they were out of money and were about to start cutting the budget, then lo and behold we found out that not only was there no shortage of money there was a huge amount of extra funding, they invented something they called "Visionary Development Training" this was mandatory for everyone in the department for 3 ,8 hour day's paid for some guy to fly in from Boston. I guess I would have to say just do a 15 percent cut across the board, then maybe they can start to trim the fat and go back to doing what they should, what is very little, at least the state government was shut down for 10 day's or so here this summer, wish it had been a lot longer, with all the screaming you never herd anyone suggest trimming the fat, no one at all....Kevin
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