Shutdown imperils more than 2,000 Northland jobs
June 30, 2011 at 6:32 am in Duluth News Tribune
As many as 2,160 people in the Northland will be out of work starting Friday if the state of Minnesota shuts down, said Drew Digby, regional employment analyst for the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. Continue Reading
I bet we can learn to get along without these workers. In the future I can see more work going to ‘contractors’ and less money spent on building a huge staff of full-time employees with tall salaries and plush benefits.
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Contractors like Haliburton?
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You mean those guys who can’t account for millions and millions of dollars they were sourced and who have numerous incidents of extremely unsatisfactory construction and services on their record, and who sub-contract to companies that employ third-world workers in Iraq who are treated as though they were indentured servants?
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As opposed to the Federal Departments that can’t even be audited because their finances are in such disarray?
GAO: Government finances so bad they can’t even do an Audit
http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/gao-government-finances-so-bad-they-cant-even-do-an-audit/
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