Matt Blunt Balances Budget on Backs of Redundant State Employees

More heartless cuts:

Office of Administration (OA) Commissioner Mike Keathley applied this philosophy to dump wasteful staffing policies of the past.

"The tax and spend philosophies of the past have allowed the state bureaucracy to grow unchecked for too long. Outdated organizational set-up has cost Missourians too much in unneeded staff," Blunt said. "I commend Commissioner Keathley for using common sense in his office to find real cost-savings for Missourians."

Unfortunately, some critics of Matt Blunt would undoubtedly argue that it's better to take more money from working families than to trim headcount in the state's agencies.