Unions Stand In Way of Calif. Budget Reform

Governor Schwarzenegger said it exactly right. Unions and lap-dog, Democrat legislators in Sacramento are doing their best to make sure that everyone but they have to sacrifice to save California's budget. The governor told reporters that unions and Democrats are telling Californians, "We want you to make the sacrifices but we in Sacramento don't want to make any sacrifices or any changes."

Unions are pointing fingers at everyone but themselves and refusing to budge on cuts in their overweening benefits, lush pay scale and perks but are insisting everyone else make the sacrifices to save union jobs. And, let's face it, jobs is all the unions care about. They have no interest in what is good for the state or the taxpayers.

I'd suggest a little fix that might help. Instead of furloughing state workers, how about firing some of the most unnecessary jobs and getting rid of them altogether?

Its worse. Jerry Brown admitted that they could balance the budget if the state stopped supporting illegals!!!!!!!!!!

KICK THE ILLEGALS OUT OF THE COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!

If I was in charge of the state, I would do many things to get the spending down. I have listed most of them before but here is one I would do to address the situation of the Unions and the legislature. First, on the ballot we had in May I would have had someone sponser an amendment to the CA constitution that returned the power to raise of lower the legislatures pay back to the people, it used to be that way until about 1970 or so when CA voted to allow them the power to raise their own pay(big mistake). Next, I would consult with all the legal people I could find and determine if hiring independent contractors for state jobs was legal. I would fire everyone I could possibly fire and then if work suffered, I would fire some more and hire independents to fill the position at non Union wages. I think they could side step the Unions that way. Maybe not and if that failed I would float another referendum and let the people vote to make Unions for government jobs illegal.

Some of this might not work but it would be worth a try. The strangle hold the Unions have on the governments needs to be broken.

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