Re: I think that more of my state tax dollars need to go to security

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:56:52 BST, Drsolly said:
> > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
>
> > > A) Name a state agency or service who's budget you will cut, and be prepared to
> > > live without that service at current levels.  You take it from higher ed, you
> > > have to accept the tuition hike that will follow.  You take it from transportation,
> > > you have to live with more potholes and dangerously degraded bridges.
>
> > C) Reduce the politicians salaries.
>
> That's merely a special case of A. :)
>
> And cutting salaries is problematic too - at least in Virginia, there aren't
> enough legislators that even reducing their salary to *zero* would net enough
> funds to make a dent in the cost of any statewide initiative.
>
> http://www.ncsl.org/programs/legismgt/about/05salary.htm
>
> For 2005, they got paid $18,000/year Senate, $17,640/year House for a part time
> job that's horrendously scheduled - you have to be semi-retired or otherwise
> have the means to live on $18K/year, and/or take 4 months of vacation a year.
>
> Phrased differently, we could fire the entire Commonwealth legislature,
> and the resulting savings would add maybe 50 competent sysadmins to the
> entire state government.  Big dent *that* would be.
 
What if we retrained the politicians to be sysadmins? 

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