Posted on 05/14/2009 1:43:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will direct his administration to send 5,000 layoff notices to state workers Friday, according to a source familiar with the governor's budget plan.
The Republican governor plans to eliminate 5,000 workers by the end of June, ..
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
All Californians need to make sacrifices. Which is why I propose we build an altar in Capitol Park and drag out the legislators one at a time until the budgets start improving.
Saw a T-Shirt picture yesterday that said on it:
Recession is when your neighbor is fired,
Depression is when you are fired,
Recovery is when Obama is fired.
Why not 500,000?
I'll see your 50,000 and raise you a million.
I'm VERY interested in a link to that page (I might have missed a link to it, but didn't see one.)
Note that the table is for MARCH only of 2007! That means the total State expenditure per month, two years ago, was $2,118,772,912 - or $25,425,274,944 per year.
I think the whole table is pretty much a lie - but, a taste of the truth today.
P.S. - If the table is to be believed, there were 57,272 total state employees at the time. I believe it is near double that today.
Sorry — I was being lazy and didn’t want to have to deal with hyperlinking. Note that what I posted is only state employees... not including local governments (which is where you find all the K-12 teachers, I believe). These headcount and salary numbers would equate to only a small part of the total revenue/expenditures of the state. And there is much more to the state expenditures than labor.
This is the query page:
http://www.census.gov/govs/index.html
This is the page from which you can choose any state:
http://www.census.gov/govs/www/apesst07view.html
And here is the link to the actual table I posted:
http://ftp2.census.gov/govs/apes/07stca.txt
He could always put them to work growing California Cannabis. Ha ha.
Hope a good number are of the illegal immigrant variety.
Five million illegals leaving CA would go a long way toward fixing this state’s budget problems.
2007 Public Employment Data
State and Local Governments
CALIFORNIA
Revised January 2009
SOURCE: 2007 Census of Government Employment. For information on nonsampling error and definitions,
see http://www.census.gov/govs/www/apesstl07.html. Data users who create their own estimates from these tables
should cite the U.S. Census Bureau as the source of the original data only.
Total
Full-time Part-time Full-Time March
Full-time pay Part-time pay Equivalent Pay
Government Function employees ($) employees ($) Employment ($)
Total 1,571,201 8,569,118,537 657,765 937,795,153 1,835,452 9,506,913,690
Financial Administration 44,617 223,252,663 5,008 8,776,725 47,517 232,029,388
Other Government Administration 28,910 166,109,573 5,040 7,785,953 30,913 173,895,526
Judicial and Legal 50,567 313,949,981 2,718 6,035,741 51,875 319,985,722
Police Protection Total 102,209 691,301,642 8,273 11,673,592 105,565 702,975,234
Police Officers Only 69,762 532,557,818 1,789 2,824,073 70,297 535,381,891
Other Police Employees 32,447 158,743,824 6,484 8,849,519 35,268 167,593,343
Fire Protection Total 33,900 296,638,281 4,308 3,285,986 35,050 299,924,267
Firefighters Only 30,545 277,347,288 3,605 2,367,649 31,439 279,714,937
Other Fire Employees 3,355 19,290,993 703 918,337 3,611 20,209,330
Corrections 86,669 505,221,561 4,062 10,538,993 88,964 515,760,554
Highways 41,369 247,622,705 2,606 6,690,789 42,990 254,313,494
Air Transportation 6,806 39,550,705 470 771,353 7,038 40,322,058
Water Transport and Terminals 2,006 12,722,575 197 259,856 2,079 12,982,431
Public Welfare 69,949 294,714,011 3,691 6,979,357 71,855 301,693,368
Health 52,243 269,208,006 8,084 18,997,605 56,072 288,205,611
Hospitals 92,226 506,892,023 26,697 81,732,329 107,591 588,624,352
Social Insurance Administration 17,417 75,774,163 1,465 3,373,115 18,299 79,147,278
Solid Waste Management 8,645 41,743,477 697 1,355,719 9,105 43,099,196
Sewerage 13,758 79,324,383 700 1,086,088 14,016 80,410,471
Parks and Recreation 26,709 108,903,349 32,478 30,893,376 40,389 139,796,725
Housing and Community Development 12,892 63,641,591 1,027 1,652,199 13,377 65,293,790
Natural Resources 20,427 104,217,066 3,704 5,958,832 22,686 110,175,898
Water Supply 23,544 139,947,119 1,474 2,209,504 24,122 142,156,623
Electric Power 11,143 82,790,276 309 809,673 11,307 83,599,949
Gas Supply 265 1,453,447 4 4,315 266 1,457,762
Transit 32,800 151,012,302 2,097 3,699,734 33,969 154,712,036
Education Total 718,776 3,747,915,315 521,854 693,263,696 918,026 4,441,179,011
Elementary & Secondary Education Total 560,246 2,843,361,596 316,506 434,087,274 700,423 3,277,448,870
Elem & Sec Instructional Employees 379,234 2,221,785,109 165,318 267,643,728 454,707 2,489,428,837
Elem & Sec Other Employees 181,012 621,576,487 151,188 166,443,546 245,716 788,020,033
Higher Education Total 154,625 886,142,896 204,730 258,056,239 213,406 1,144,199,135
Higher Ed Instructional Employees 41,874 328,397,058 80,106 138,927,925 63,652 467,324,983
Higher Ed Other Employees 112,751 557,745,838 124,624 119,128,314 149,754 676,874,152
Other Education 3,905 18,410,823 618 1,120,183 4,197 19,531,006
Local Libraries 8,568 38,428,584 10,787 12,156,565 13,116 50,585,149
All Other and Unallocable 64,786 366,783,739 10,015 17,804,058 69,265 384,587,797
Oh, No! What would they do about the housing surplus??? It would cause blight of our neighborhoods! The schools would be empty! Rob Reiner's First-Five wouldn't have any customers! There would be no people to take advantage of the after-school-programs. What would Home Depot do with all their shiny new day-worker facilities?
The arguments for big government are so twisted, but easy to predict.
Yeah, I know. But the answers to their stupidity would just confuse them anyway. Hey, if there are fewer criminal miscreants in our state, there might be more people coming back to CA who left when the State Gov failed to do their job in protecting citizens. Businesses might return to provide more jobs for more honest hard working people who would then buy those surplus houses. No, they just would not be able to understand common sense.
Even though in many cases I would disagree that that particular job needs to be done at all, it sure makes no sense laying off good junior workers while paying way bigger salaries to the old deadwood to just sit there. The most some of that deadwood scum will do is spend their days explaining why they are too busy to take an actual assignment.
A Governor with any brass at all should target the government employees union and expose the theft of tax money that occurs daily due to 20% of California government employees not doing a lick of useful work.
Higher Ed Instructional Employees -- 21,985
Higher Ed Other Employees ----------- 84,195
Is the function of higher education "Instructional" or "Other"? This is bleeping absurd ...
State employees only: Higher Education Total 106,180 603,891,252 116,560 148,361,197 143,157 752,252,449 Higher Ed Instructional Employees 21,985 174,380,369 32,119 57,593,895 33,566 231,974,264 Higher Ed Other Employees 84,195 429,510,883 84,441 90,767,302 109,591 520,278,185 Other Education 3,905 18,410,823 618 1,120,183 4,197 19,531,006 State and Local Employees: Education Total 718,776 3,747,915,315 521,854 693,263,696 918,026 4,441,179,011 Elementary & Secondary Education Total 560,246 2,843,361,596 316,506 434,087,274 700,423 3,277,448,870 Elem & Sec Instructional Employees 379,234 2,221,785,109 165,318 267,643,728 454,707 2,489,428,837 Elem & Sec Other Employees 181,012 621,576,487 151,188 166,443,546 245,716 788,020,033 Higher Education Total 154,625 886,142,896 204,730 258,056,239 213,406 1,144,199,135 Higher Ed Instructional Employees 41,874 328,397,058 80,106 138,927,925 63,652 467,324,983 Higher Ed Other Employees 112,751 557,745,838 124,624 119,128,314 149,754 676,874,152 Other Education 3,905 18,410,823 618 1,120,183 4,197 19,531,006
Add elimination of the overbearing environmental regulations and those businesses might just return — or others choose to build/relocate.
All of which would create new revenue for government. Silly little common sense arguments that seem to be lost in Sacramento.
When you back out the state government higher education full-time numbers from your earlier post you get for local government higher education:
Local Gov't Higher Ed Instructional Employees -- 19,889
Local Gov't Higher Ed Other Employees ----------- 28,566
If state government higher ed ran as "efficiently" as local government higher ed, they should employ as full-time:
State Gov't Higher Ed Instructional Employees -- 21,985
State Gov't Higher Ed Other Employees ----------- 31,576
Since the actual state government full-time higher ed employees are:
State Gov't Higher Ed Instructional Employees -- 21,985
State Gov't Higher Ed Other Employees ----------- 84,195
we should put local higher ed people in charge of state higher ed and lay off the difference in "other" full-time employees: 52,619 people. Including benefits that would save a quick $4-5B per year.
When you really look at state spending numbers, you find how outrageous the claims of the California Teachers Assoc are.
Year after year... same thing.
We need to abolish public employee unions.
No, I think it’s closer to 20 million people working for the federal government, less the military. The numbers are so massive, and convoluted it’s hard to get an accurate number.
If you have an updated list, and link, I’d like to see it.
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