When there’s no money, there is no money.
Give em IOUs. That will work.
“When there’s no money, there is no money.”
No the money has been siphoned for outrageous compensation, particularly retirement compensation (pensions and health care). San Jose like many government units is caught in a vice between demands of retirees and the needs of taxpayers. Since the retiree demands take precedence over everything else, taxpayer needs will just be ignored.
They have plenty of money. It’s priorities.
What they are really saying is they don’t have enough money to pay for their pet programs and projects and then pay for the essential services that should be their first responsibility.
Do you know the way to San Jose? I don’t see it on the map anymore.
But there is no way in hell they are going to lay off the Sub Secretary to the Assistant to the Director of Office of Chicken Excretion Eradication! THAT person is just too important to daily operations!
With mere police sergeants in San Jose making a cool quarter of a million a year, there's plenty of money.
Baloney. If this were my town, I would demand cuts to other areas.
When there’s no money, there is no paychecks.
There’s enough money to pay an adequate level of police and fire protection. What there isn’t enough money for is all the other BS departments and programs being provided.
The city fathers need to lay off employees in other departments, completely cut their positions and then lay their own butts off before any essential services are cut.
This is a time-old, tried-and-true tactic of rats in rat-run cities, counties and states across America: scare people into believing the services most needed will be cut if they don’t pony up more tax money. Commie Governor Jerry Brown is coming oout with a referendum on tax inxreases. The people will vote on whether or not they want to increase taxes to pay for all this crap. Brown has an extensive network with mayors and county governments throughout the state. He will have no trouble getting large Bay Area counties (such as Santa Clara Co. which is where San Jose is) to help him with his propaganda campaign to get the initiative to pass.
This particular announcement is a blatant propaganda move: notice that the announcement includes the threat of severely reducing gang control programs? Blatant scare tactic. There are a whole lot of people who should be sent packing, including the mayor and the city council, before one firefighter or cop is laid off. Any layoffs from police and fire should be strictly clerical. Let some of these fatassed beotches put their finger nail files and their cell phones and their bags of chips and Hostess ding-dongs down and do some work for a change. If they all put in a day’s work for a day’s pay, 2/3 of those jobs could be eliminated.
Santa Clara County would be right at the top of the list for wanting the tax increase initiative to pass because it is so heavily Mexican and pro-Mexican there it may as well be called San Jose, Mexico. For example, CSU San Jose has been renamed to something (I forget what at the moment) that implies it is a Mexican university or is in Mexico. Santa Clara County wants this increase to keep funding more programs and benefits for illegals.
So that’s the Real story.