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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (186171)	3/28/2012 4:18:19 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542923

Of course and I never suggested such a thing - and frankly it is insulting to even hint that I did. AND, no one is suggesting a cut of 50% across the board. The highest figure used for any State was 5%. Geeeez. So says my friend, Steve. Except for the fact that he also said the following: I'm betting that in most state and local governments you could cut the building and planning staff by 50% and services would not be changed. Ah, I see, as I paste this in. I was in a big hurry to get out the door to a meeting and missed the qualifiers "building and planning staff". I actually have no expertise in that area. In our local government, there is little of that and my guess is a 50% cut would be far too much since the same people that do that work do the inspections and so on. Last time I checked, the boro administrator had reorganized work such that they picked up the workloads of others. And when people such as Krugman make this argument he loses the debate, the discussion. Krugman was arguing the larger point, the same one I was arguing, which is cuts at the aggregate level of state workers. Wrong time to cut because of the fragility of the economic recovery.