“While the result is shocking, the real failure is the secretive process that lead to it. The total lack of public information about these negotiation processes prevents the public from holding their elected officials accountable. Add in the fact that many of these very officials are elected due to major investments by these very employee unions (a topic for a later day), and you have a recipe for fiscal disaster. And taxpayers across the state are about to taste the fruits of that recipe.”
“Most public employees automatically receive a three to five percent “step” increase each year..”
This is what is killing Ct. as well. The public sector is like a plague of voracious locusts who vote.
Time for one big whopping initiative.
I got to get me a state job.
Many years ago, I recall an incident with the Texas state legislature who gave themselves a VERY generous pay increase so that they could “achieve parity with their counterparts in the private sector.”
To this day, they have never defined who their counterparts in the private sector are - I know of no private sector corporations or employees who are paid to represent the taxpayers/voters in their districts, make laws affecting the state, and create a state budget and taxing policy.
Any guesses?
Maybe create a few hundred commissions and panels to look into the problem?
Having hundreds (thousands?) of commissions and panels all with high-paying appointed positions for out-of-office political hacks contribute to the problem also.
Fire one out of every 3 government workers, then get down to the serious cutting.
Ah hell — this is an impossible scenario..
The “Civil Servants” have enslaved the taxpayer citizens.
He makes one incorrect assumption right at the start with “revenue declines are a small part of the problem”
THERE HAVE BEEN NO REVENUE DECLINES. The revenues have gone up up up. The problem is spending, including the spending he describes here and more.