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Why California Is In Trouble – 340,000 Public Employees With $100,000+ Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $45 Billion
Forbes ^ | May 19, 2020 | Adam Andrzejewski

Posted on 05/20/2020 9:47:27 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek

Despite California’s $54 billion budget deficit and $1 trillion unfunded pension liability, there are 340,390 government employees bringing home six-figure salary and pension checks.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I have family and friends who work for the state and county. They are sitting at home doing nothing and still getting paid.


21 posted on 05/20/2020 10:24:47 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

bttt


22 posted on 05/20/2020 10:27:19 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: MeganC
In fairness if you make $100,000 a year then in much of California you’re poor.

If they are pulling in pensions that means they have been in the state a long time and are likely recipients of nice prop 13 tax breaks. $100K will go a long way if your house is paid for and have $2K property tax bill. Now if your just getting started, $100k ay year will buy you a tent at Rats beach...

23 posted on 05/20/2020 10:27:29 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

This is been known for many years and is not a dispute

I once saw a list of all the agencies with these no nothing show up once a year and get paid $100,000 and it’s pages and pages and pages long this wildlife commission bad commission on this this commission on that it’s amazing


24 posted on 05/20/2020 10:30:26 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

The CA public servants became their masters.


25 posted on 05/20/2020 10:40:08 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: MeganC
In fairness if you make $100,000 a year then in much of California you’re poor.

Then that would mean about 85 percent of those in the CA private sector are living in 3rd world level abject poverty.

26 posted on 05/20/2020 10:46:06 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: JayAr36
CALI FIREMAN POCKETS ANNUAL MILLION DOLLAR PENSION
A Los Angeles fireman retired in his 50's with a pension of over 1 million dollars per year with lifetime medical benefits.

Job Title: Assistant Chief---Retired 2010---Years service 32

Rec'd from L/A Fire and Police Employees’ Pension Fund 2015: $1,164,022.65 annual

Lifetime Health Benefits $17,286.69 annual (Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

27 posted on 05/20/2020 10:54:24 AM PDT by Liz
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Solution: Cut government staffing by 20%, reduce government pensions and benefits by 20%


28 posted on 05/20/2020 10:56:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: MeganC

Correct.


29 posted on 05/20/2020 11:02:36 AM PDT by sauropod (Quarantine is when you restrict sick people, tyranny is when you restrict healthy people.)
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To: 1Old Pro

NO! The solution is to let them go bankrupt. They have long been insolvent.


30 posted on 05/20/2020 11:15:15 AM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Nothing will ever change politically in California because of the large numbers of people pulling down double- and triple-dipping paychecks from various public tits.

There are enough government employees in CA to keep electing Dems forever.

A federal bailout will only perpetuate and further enable this un-American cesspool.

There should not be a single additional virus dollar sent to CA.

It is the very policies of those in power who have destroyed the state.


31 posted on 05/20/2020 11:33:55 AM PDT by karnage
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I just sent the following message to governor Newsom’s office:

Dear Governor Newsom, here’s why there is no sympathy for California going bankrupt:

California Is In Trouble – 340,000 Public Employees With $100,000 - Paychecks Cost Taxpayers $45 Billion

Let that sink in.

Respectfully,

Mark Davis

32 posted on 05/20/2020 11:50:02 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

As a fellow CA resident, I say no Federal bailout dollars to this state.

CA does not need it.

It’s bloated, has enough money to send checks to illegals and give them free healthcare too.

And don’t get me going on the public employees.


33 posted on 05/20/2020 11:56:20 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: setter

Sounds like Illinois or Indiana?


34 posted on 05/20/2020 12:03:33 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( The CHICOM/PRCNN, controllers of America's Fake news media, CDCNN, WHO, are the Deep Staters!))
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To: CodeToad

“No one puts a gun against our head and makes us live here!”

Then how the hell do you explain all the people staying there?? Jeez! /funny-sarcasm

The weather, and if you are lucky some great neighbors, church members and good family members living close by.

Also, Prop 13.


35 posted on 05/20/2020 12:07:36 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( The CHICOM/PRCNN, controllers of America's Fake news media, CDCNN, WHO, are the Deep Staters!))
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

I suggest everyone read the Forbes article.

This is why Pelosi’s latest mess of an aid bill will go nowhere. This debt was incurred by the idiot rats running CA. It’s their responsibility and none of our heard earned tax dollars should be used to bail them out.

VERY glad I don’t live in CA.


36 posted on 05/20/2020 1:03:00 PM PDT by upchuck (Windows 10 is just a fancy spying machine with troublesome, mandatory updates.)
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To: fuente

“NO! The solution is to let them go bankrupt. They have long been insolvent.”

Actually I prefer that states cannot declare bankruptcy. This way they have to fully pay for their sins, no mater how long it takes. Otherwise they will just steal again.


37 posted on 05/20/2020 1:51:52 PM PDT by Voltage
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To: MeganC
In fairness if you make $100,000 a year then in much of California you’re poor.

And 340,000 star employees?! What the heck are they all doing?

38 posted on 05/20/2020 1:58:15 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: PGR88
Simply stop paying teachers, and stop paying government workers during shut-down period. I guarantee the SEIU, AFSCME and the teachers unions will force state government re-openings the next day...

I agree.

39 posted on 05/20/2020 1:59:19 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: PGR88

I agree


40 posted on 05/20/2020 2:13:16 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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