{"id":3417,"date":"2010-12-17T14:54:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T19:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2017-03-01T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:09:48","slug":"red-plan-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3417","title":{"rendered":"Red Plan &#8220;Savings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should have spent a bit more time explaining this quote from a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/186326\/publisher_ID\/36\/\"> recent Trib story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hanson said next year&#8217;s budget deficit would again be about $4.5 million, even with the money from that fund. Without it, he said, the deficit will creep to about $6 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised the Finance Director would describe next year&#8217;s $4.5 million cuts as &#8220;cuts.&#8221; Up to now whenever the Red Plan&#8217;s &#8220;savings&#8221; were being spun staff cuts were touted as creating new efficiencies. However most of the staff reductions were necessary to pay off the building bonds to the tune of about $2.5 million annually.<\/p>\n<p>Its been a great sales pitch. The Trib bought it hook line and sinker. Its been a little like describing the amputation of a foot as &#8220;weight loss.&#8221; Fortunately for the Duluth School District the amputation comes with a nice pair of new shoes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have spent a bit more time explaining this quote from a recent Trib story. Hanson said next year&#8217;s budget deficit would again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20500,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions\/20500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}