People who’ve been blogging a long time sometimes lament “are there any new blogs out there?”
Why, yes – there are.
Today’s stop on the MOB tour is Joe Blogs, by Joe Markham. Markham’s an engineer by training, an IT project manager by trade, and apparently hasn’t put “archives” on his site yet, so I have no idea how long he’s been at it.
But there’s some good stuff. I liked this breakdown of the “jobs” claims for the proposed Vikes’ stadium:
The Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission saw a presentation for a new Vikings Stadium today. This built on information from an Economic Impact report by the same people. Among all the information presented were these nuggets:
- -36 Month Construction Time-line
- -$577,000,000 in “personal earnings” during construction
- -13,400 jobs
- -4,600,000 labor hours
With my handy-dandy calculator, I get some interesting results. Average the dollars over the jobs for three years, and you get the princely sum of $14,353.23 per year, about $7.18/hour.
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.
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.
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.
Bottom line: If you want a stadium, fine. Don’t try to justify it as a jobs program, though. It doesn’t add up.
Cool – finally someone to help King Banaian on the numbers beat!
Make Joe Blogs a stop on your own MOB tour!
I think a new mine in Northern Minnesota will provide many jobs at no cost to the taxpayer. Two Democrat legistlatures from the Twin Cities are trying to block it. Looks like some people from St Paul want economic aparthied in Minnesota.
Once the stadium is built those guys can get a job walking up and down the risers selling hotdogs. Let’s see, 8 games a year times 3 hours per game, WOW! That’s almost a whole week of work!!!
As long as they don’t get a DWI and get suspended for 2 games and be out $250,000. What? That’s ony what the players make? Nevermind.
Since when do you guys care about good paying jobs? Like the Congresswoman said, Minnesotans are such hard workers, they’ll work two or more jobs to provide for their families.
Do “you guys” mean “good paying jobs” achieved by a union which keeps down the number of jobs, which does nothing for unemployed persons? Just checking.
I mean any good paying jobs. That the union jobs are usually better paying may be part of it, but I’d rather have 1/2 of the people be able to make enough to live on than everybody working for minimum wage.