{"id":8913,"date":"2010-03-01T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8913"},"modified":"2010-02-28T09:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T14:05:34","slug":"around-the-mob-joe-blogs-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8913","title":{"rendered":"Around The MOB: Joe Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

People who’ve been blogging a long time sometimes lament “are there any new <\/em>blogs out there?”<\/p>\n

Why, yes – there are.<\/p>\n

Today’s stop on the MOB tour is Joe Blogs<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>by Joe Markham.\u00a0 Markham’s an engineer by training, an IT project manager by trade, <\/em>and apparently hasn’t put “archives” on his site\u00a0 yet, so I have no idea how long he’s been at it.<\/p>\n

But there’s some good stuff.\u00a0 I liked this breakdown<\/a> of the “jobs” claims for the proposed Vikes’ stadium:<\/p>\n

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The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission<\/a> saw a presentation<\/a> for a new Vikings Stadium today. This built on information from an Economic Impact report<\/a> by the same people. Among all the information presented were these nuggets:<\/p>\n
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  • -36 Month Construction Time-line<\/li>\n
  • -$577,000,000 in “personal earnings” during construction<\/li>\n
  • -13,400 jobs<\/li>\n
  • -4,600,000 labor hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    With my handy-dandy calculator, I get some interesting results. Average the\u00a0 dollars over the jobs for three years, and you get the princely sum of $14,353.23 per year, about $7.18\/hour.<\/p>\n

    Now this is a low-ball figure. Some fraction of those jobs are part time, and most of those jobs will not last the full three years.<\/p>\n

    One of the other numbers in the stadium proposal is the 4,600,000 labor hours. Over the 13,400 jobs, that’s just 343.3 hours per job, or only about 2 month’s work.<\/p>\n

    Dividing the personal earnings by the labor hours gives you $125.43 dollars per hour – a very nice rate. But as seen in the previous calculation, you wouldn’t get it for long.<\/p>\n

    Bottom line: If you want a stadium, fine. Don’t try to justify it as a jobs program, though. It doesn’t add up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Cool – finally someone to help King Banaian on the numbers beat!<\/p>\n

    Make Joe Blogs<\/em> a stop on your own MOB tour!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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