{"id":74160,"date":"2020-05-19T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74160"},"modified":"2020-12-21T05:38:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T11:38:43","slug":"tone-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74160","title":{"rendered":"Tone Deaf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div id=\":1rk\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div class=\"adM\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<blockquote>600,000 Minnesotans lost their jobs this Spring. The $1.5 billion surplus is now a $2.5 billion deficit.\u00a0 DFL legislators want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2020\/05\/12\/state-workers-may-lose-pay-raise-as-economy-tanks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2020\/05\/12\/state-workers-may-lose-pay-raise-as-economy-tanks&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1589805833354000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG3gtYoSaaYjI7MmLsck56rHy48pQ\">give 50,000 state employees a 2% raise in July<\/a>.\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>My thought: there are 50,000 state employees?\u00a0 That&#8217;s a lot of bureaucrats.\u00a0 And it does not include all government employees &#8211; teachers, county or city &#8211; only state government.\u00a0 Are we sure that&#8217;s as lean as we can get?\u00a0 No fat to trim?\u00a0 None?<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The Republicans are holding strong, for now.\u00a0 Let the state employees strike.\u00a0 Give them a taste of their own medicine, going without pay like so many others.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>State employee unions hold Walz&#8217; leash.\u00a0 Time to give it a yank.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Joe Doakes<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Being a public employee union makes you not only &#8220;essential&#8221;, but more valuable to Tim Walz&#8217;s Minnesota than the people who are paying the taxes to support them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Daudt and the House GOP give up their cards on the bonding bill, I may go back to the Libertarians after all.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>600,000 Minnesotans lost their jobs this Spring. The $1.5 billion surplus is now a $2.5 billion deficit.\u00a0 DFL legislators want to give 50,000 state employees a 2% raise in July. \u00a0 My thought: there are 50,000 state employees?\u00a0 That&#8217;s a lot of bureaucrats.\u00a0 And it does not include all government employees &#8211; teachers, county or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,2],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-74160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-minnesota-politics","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74167,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74160\/revisions\/74167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}