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There was a small group of national bloggers, and no North Dakota bloggers. No serious ones, anyway.
So when I developed an audience I laid claim to the title of “most popular,” mostly as a joke.
It was true, technically, but when your competition is mostly teenagers with MySpace pages it isn’t much to be proud of.
But whatever.
Now I lay claim to the title just because it irks Nodland so.
And that makes me feel warm and happy inside.As for the WSI thing, you haven’t heard the last of this yet.
Whatever else people will tell you about what’s going on at WSI, remember this: From 2004 to 2006 the budget for investigating worker fraud went from $1.6 million down to $150,000.
This state is spending 1/10th of what it was on investigating worker fraud, yet the number of fraudulent workers out there hasn’t decreased by that much.
They’re just not being investigated any more, which means that eventually the bureau will be paying out millions in benefits it shouldn’t have to pay, and that expense will be passed on to every business in the state in the form of higher premiums.
Something that will, in turn, make the price of our goods and services a little bit more expensive.And who has a vested interest in seeing that happen?
Why, unions and work comp.
lawyers of course.
Lawyers like Chad Nodland.
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