tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post6241631537634646283..comments2024-03-25T15:17:04.488-07:00Comments on Captain Capitalism: Minnesota State Spending as a Percent of GDPCaptain Capitalismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05620212946121617985noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-8407070969874513392013-02-14T15:11:51.319-08:002013-02-14T15:11:51.319-08:00According to the United States Bureau of Labor Sta...According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual dental assistant salary in Minnesota is $35,000. However, the city Duluth has a different pay rate for its workers. <a href="http://techniciansalary.net/dental-assistant-salary-in-minnesota/" rel="nofollow">http://techniciansalary.net/dental-assistant-salary-in-minnesota/</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04509270227703981266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8358039.post-81530496553765433202010-12-07T07:00:34.666-08:002010-12-07T07:00:34.666-08:00I find the usual howls are the loudest when it'...I find the usual howls are the loudest when it's the rate of growth of budgets being cut.<br /><br />The least are when ENTIRE bureaucrcies get canned.<br /><br />Fred2's evil plan: Remove entire branches of the bureaucracy, and replace them with (much smaller) bureaucracies. i.e. the 10,000 man bureau of navel gazing and and 25,000 woman gaia defense league both get cut an replaced by the 5000person Combined Gaia Gazing Org.<br /><br />You ask, why not just replace it with nothing?<br /><br />GRasshopper, you have not yet understood: if you slowed the budget growth, you'd be excoriated, if you just cut you will be faced with endless crap about the worthy work these people do that will not be done. (Ok, I'm laughing too. But we are bad people. :-) )<br /><br />But if you cut and replace with a much smaller org, all the apparatchniks will be too busy savagely competing for a new job in the new place ( for which they will have "priority") to really spend time bugging you. AND, you release the the usual bafflegab and propaganda about efficiency, doing more with less, etc...<br /><br />This also allows you, it's a smaller bureaucracy, to not have so many higher level positions, and start a new (lower) wage scale.<br /><br /><br />If you are really clever you keep stats, and inthe new org ( which has a MUcH smaller budget, is newly formed and thus confused) you can prove whatever you want ( case per bureaucrat went up or down/solve rates etc...) and use that as an excuse to cut the budget and staff next year.<br /><br />Oh... and do it quick, if you have a 3-4 month timetable, everyone is too busy scrambling for fewer jobs and backstabbing one another to organize things against you.<br /><br />Finally be generous to the people you are , in effect dumpin: we'll provide "retraining", assistance in resume writing, and office to work from for 6 months, etc.. makes people feel better , its BS, and mostly is a lot cheaper than picket lines - and your costs were there anyway, so it;s no issue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com