Posted on 12/12/2008 8:57:40 AM PST by NormsRevenge
UC System .. finding new ways to fleece the flock
Wow - Cali really needs to raise taxes for it’s budget shortfall.
I say indict and prosecute these people.
UT Austin used to do this (maybe it still does). People retire and then come back as 1099 consultants or project managers for even bigger salaries (justified by saying no fringe benefits are being paid since they are consultants). The cases I know of were when people left their posts and no one had yet been hired to replace them. The person leaving came back and was basically doing their same job, but at a higher rate. It was temporary, which may or may not be the case in the article here.
I heard Newt say on FNC this morning, that 80+% of athe State Police in California retire on “disability”.
I see the day coming when the American people are going to demand that unions have got to go.
Yet regents Chairman Richard Blum acknowledges both the obligation to pay and past agreements that we are clearly uncomfortable with.Is this the same Richard Blum that belongs to DiFi???
It’s just amazing. People in the Union in the auto world make on average of $70.00 an hour and when laid off; get to come into work; sign in and play crosswords or whatever; still receiving half their pay and all of their benfits.
These are the deals being made with our oh so honest Congress. Wonder what their percentage of the take is?
I want Congress out with their dirty backroom tricks and deals we never know anything about. No wonder this country is going broke with their seperate and secret accounting systems.
WTF, $2.1 Mil. For the police chief of UC Berkley. Any other Police chiefs of towns of 35K get that kind of money. This is what happens when people don't have to worry about earning their money. If you think it grows on trees, it is easy to see why they think they can just go grab some more. When you spend the Govts money, it is no big deal, they have plenty. Greedy bastards.
Sadly, that presumes they would have to know about the problem. The media has begun to report anecdotal evidence of public employee compensation abuse. But it's a bare trickle compared to the magnitude of the problem. San Diego appears to be somewhat of an exception in that its budget/pension problems are being aired in public.
Most states/municipalities hide behind their leviathan budgets. Need Billions to (over)pay public employees? Need billions to fund public pensions (including politicians' pensions)? Simply hide the funding in next years budget THEN tell taxpayers the deficit is attributable to schools, police, firement, etc. The media never gets around to highlighting the billions that were first stuffed away for public employees.
The deals that Congress have with the unions is that the union will propagandize the union members to get them to donate to and vote for Democrat candidates. In addition the unions use union member dues to work on behalf of Democrats.
Yet regents Chairman Richard Blum acknowledges both the obligation to pay and past agreements that we are clearly uncomfortable with.
Is this the same Richard Blum that belongs to DiFi???”
I’ll bet a prime rib dinner at John Asquaga’s Nugget in Sparks, Nevada that it is one and the same person.
Its just amazing. People in the Union in the auto world make on average of $70.00 an hour and when laid off; get to come into work; sign in and play crosswords or whatever; still receiving half their pay and all of their benfits.”
some clarification:
The “$70 per hour” figure includes all health insurance, pensions, sick pay, vacation pay, and holiday pay.
When they are laid off and placed into the “job banks”, they receive 95% of their take home pay, not half.
In addition the unions use union member dues to work on behalf of Democrats.”
Unions contributed $400 million to Nobama’s campaign. If he spent the billion we have been told, that represents 40% of the entire amount of contributions taken by The Messiah. There is supposed to be over $200 million that isn’t identified as to source—person or country.
We have elected an illegal alien who is a born crook to the Oval Office.
That’s what I have heard; however, Rush was saying there was only a $2.00 difference.
Remember, they’re from the government, and they’re there to help you /s
Sad (for the USA) but true.
They bitch when the gov even considers lowering it a fraction of a point, and each day I hear sickening yadi yadas from some school big cheese saying the children are starving and being taught in caves with candle light and no central heat or air, and used stone tablets to read from....and because of these things they need more, yes more!!
we made a big mistake when neither my husband nor I went to work for some govt entity....what a travesty.....
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