These are make work jobs for racists.
Posted on 04/23/2020 3:01:22 AM PDT by Bruiser 10
State and local governments are warning of a wave of layoffs and pay cuts after getting left out of the federal coronavirus relief package expected to pass Congress this week.
In many places, those painful reductions are already taking shape:
Los Angeles plans to force city workers to spend 26 days on unpaid leave as revenues are forecast to drop as much as $600 million next fiscal year. Detroit has proposed laying off 200 workers and furloughing thousands more. In Ohio’s Hamilton County, Commissioner Denise Driehaus is taking a 10% pay cut alongside county workers.
“We are really struggling,” Driehaus said.
The $2.2 trillion emergency legislation known as the CARES Act, which President Donald Trump signed late last month, included $150 billion in direct help for state and local governments grappling with the impact of the deadly outbreak. Democrats pushed to include another $150 billion in the next tranche of aid, but Republicans sought to keep the bill narrowly focused on support for small business.
By Tuesday night, Democrats yielded on their demand. The Senate passed the legislation by unanimous consent — without additional help for state and local governments. The House is slated to vote Thursday, and Trump is expected to sign it.
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These are make work jobs for racists.
That’ll focus hearts and minds, especially at the state levels. Suddenly we’ll hear that reopening the economy isn’t such a bad idea after all.
Imposing mandatory shutdowns of viable business establishments, while at the same time treating pension payments and other retiree costs as sacrosanct obligations of the state, is about the biggest example of fiscal mismanagement that I’ve ever seen. This is the equivalent of a retail store shutting its doors and going out of business today ... while still keeping the staff employee, paying the rent, and keeping the utilities on indefinitely into the future.
But you do have to wonder. We know that some skills necessary to run a complex, technological society like ours are “perishable”. It’s just a fact. Why wouldn’t some “negative” skills like corruption also be “perishable”. Getting rid of corrupt, petty bureaucrats sounds like a good thing to me.
It wasn’t a flaw. It’s a gamble. A desperate one on some cases, by state and munivple governments that refuse to live within their taxpayers’ means. They are all still counting on a bailout.
Probably at least ten states in dire circumstances, and another twenty which will be adjusting tax rates for 2021 in a serious way.
All this did, was speed up the process of people exiting both Illinois and California. I’ll bet both lose an additional one-million residents by the end of 2021.
So these governors are screwing their current workforce for the benefit of retirees who aren’t even constituents and don’t even do business there anymore.
Amen. Enough of this left wing nonsense.
Not the most essential workers in that nation! Oh wait, goobermint drones? Never mind.
bummer not.
Now you see why these states are so hell-bent on flooding the place with immigrants. They need to find millions of people who are dumb enough to take on an enormous tax burden to support American retirees.
I could care less if all these gold brickers were fired. Welcome to the real world. And by the way you owe the tax payers everything you got.
Yup. This is the prybar that Trump will use to reopen the economy.
I live in NYS. We had an opportunity a few years back to vote for a constitutional convention which might have enabled us to amend our state constitution and deal with our oncoming fiscal tsunami.
Public employees scared voters silly with all kinds of BS, hid the real reasons for their opposition (protecting their unsustainable pensions and health bennies), and came out to vote. The proposal went down in flames. Taxpayers, jobs, families, continue to flee the state.
Since states can’t print money, and the people still remaining can’t keep them in the style to which they’ve become accustomed, our so-called public servants are about to get screwed big-time.
These people aren’t stupid, but they are greedy and clearly don’t give a damn who they have to impoverish to get what’s coming to them.
I have zero sympathy for our public servants anymore. None. They made their beds. Now they can lie in them.
And if the stock market doesn’t rebound, there goes everybody’s pension.
“In Ohio’s Hamilton County, Commissioner Denise Driehaus is taking a 10% pay cut alongside county workers.
“We are really struggling,” Driehaus said. “
Lol, no Denise, you’re not struggling.
Not even close.
Well stated.
It will also be interesting, to say the least, to see the number of lawsuits claiming violation of civil liberties. Unlike the marginal ‘take the sign out of your yard’ cases these suits will involve wholesale, clear, unconstitutional acts by government entities and executives.
Legal defenses cost money even if the defense wins. And if they lose, look out. All the cities, states, governors and mayors who thought they were ‘helping’ by arresting moms in a park or restricting travel may find themselves facing multiple large payouts and ending up in default.
L8r
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