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two sides of the same coin

In economics, politics, slush on 4 December 2007 tagged al-capone, budget, capone, dale-carnegie, death-and-taxes, government-spending, perception, perspective, politics with no comments

A strange juxtaposition from the Death and Taxes site for the budget graph, visualizing the relative proportions of the national budget by department and project:

It reminds me of the the first chapter of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People, wherein Carnegie recounts the capture of infamous gunman, “Two Gun” Crowley. During [...]

one reason never to become an employee

In edumication, slush on 2 November 2007 tagged budget, education, employee, employer, employment, schooling with no comments

You’ll avoid obnoxious policy like this:

[The report] does say the budget was a month late to the Governor’s Office because of problems within Ogden’s department, although it doesn’t mention him by name. The report says the budget preparation process was “ad hoc and unstructured.” It also says there was a lack of prioritization, exemplified by [...]