"Yooooou are aaaallll fiyad!!!!"
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 ...
I've imported the data into two spreadsheets and will post some of the more staggering data from these later. These are each a one-month snapshot of government spending - specifically the month of March, 2007. State government in CA has grown to nearly double that of 2007. Projected figures for today are more than astounding - they are positively criminal! They have partied hardy, and the spree is about to be completely over. The fallout will be devastating for government officials, not just for taxpayers.
Thanks again!
Ron
You’re welcome! It is the only source I’ve ever seen for these numbers (haven’t been able to find headcount numbers at the ca State dept of finance or EDD websites). If you know of any, let me know.
March 2007 is the most current on that website. The database does go backward, although I didn’t look at those. My main objective was to point out that 5,000 employees being laid off is probably equivalent to normal monthly attrition.
I’d be interested in what you come up with. SFConservative also seemed interested in looking at some details (see posts a few above). Please ping me if you complete your analysis.
I've seen data that indicates that state government size (employees and additional agencies) has nearly doubled in the last two years. I'll go find that and use this as basis to extrapolate where we really are today.
It looks like we may be 70 billion in red ink about now, and you're right. Laying off 5000 is a pittance - definitely equivalent to average attrition.
Things are going to get awfully hot for the pols in Sacto in the coming weeks!
Not that bad, IMO. For the current year, they're were facing maybe a 25 billion deficit (before consideration for the 2 years of sales tax increases, increased car fees, etc). Also, the numbers they are throwing around are for two years. When Arnie talks about a $42 billion deficit, cut it in half for the annual figure. Their game right now is to make it sound BIG, HUGE, Unsolvable! (without tax increases).
Remember the numbers that were throw around when Gray Davis was recalled? $20-$30 billion? The actual deficit was $6 billion dollars. And Arnie sold voters on a $15 billion dollar bond to solve it.
They're criminal, IMO.
They sure are outrageous - close to one million employees, each earning an average of near 60K per year - but, that includes janitors, office help and temp teachers, who collect peanuts by comparison to 'tenured' teachers that get the equivalent of 3 1/2 months vacation every year, with pay.
Oh how I wish you were right!
What follows is from a good friend that keeps his eyes on Sacto every day... this is as of yesterday.
Until CalPers, the State pension plan, is fixed, Californians are in deep trouble. At the last accounting the system was $181 billion upside down. My guess is that due to losses and the stock market, it is over $200 billion in the red.
And, this is the law...
"Under state law, when CalPERS pension funds are not sufficient to pay for public employees' generous defined pension benefits, taxpayers are forced to make up the difference."
We now have a $63 billion deficit, over $114 billion in debt, and now another $200 billion debt -- all to be paid for by the taxpayers.
Luckily that is $7 billion below the estimated $70 billion we would probably be in the hole by election day, May 19th. But, at the rate it's going up, it'll be at minimum $65 billion mid next week - and over $70 billion by the end of the following week.
I meant to add a link to my prior. Steve is a friend that daily tracks the state-gov mess better than most. Hope you find his website interesting.
You can read on his site what was going on back in 2007 in his archives... that tells you that state gov was growing at a horrendous rate per month long-about May 2007 (if my memory serves, the average was well over 3K new employees per month.
Using news reports in 2007 and 2008, I've come up with my wrap-up - adding growth rate to the 2007 figures. It appears that current state-gov employment is roughly 70-75 thousand more employees today than the 387 thousand shown in the 2007 census listing - for a total today of roughly 462,000 state employees - each one drawing an average of 65K per year, at a cost to the taxpayer of over $30 billion per year.
I'll freepmail a link to a copy of my XL spreadsheet tomorrow, after I get it where you can pull it down. (It's too wide to post here...) 8^)
All that being said, I do think there's too many Republicans who are too ready to apologize for the GOP. Rightly (as in the case of too much spending) or wrongly, it's no way to win an election as McCain and Dole demonstrated.
Your post was to someone else, but it’s a great tip, thanks. I have always hated variable fonts.
About time..some of them don’t work they just collect pay check.
LOL! Kinda makes you pine for the good ol' Davis days.
It would have been better, because increased spending would have had real opposition.
"Yooooou are aaaallll fiyad!!!!"
Thanks for your comments Rhombus. I agree with your take on things.
Bizarro.
not to make light of this situation, but you can't have people retiring on full pay with medical at 55 or 60 and expect to have enough money for anything.....
why don't the union thugs sit down and make significant give backs to save jobs?.....
I completely agree.
Guy's is there anything we can do to stop this madness?
They are throwing money around like it was made by zig-zag.
I’m a Californian, and I detest the state getting federal funds for a bailout.
The state’s leadership has been bordering criminal behavior. For instance, when they went into deficit spending, they were in violation of the state constitution. They not only didn’t get called on it, but they changed the constitution to allow it.
I would run the politicians in Sacramento out on a rail if I could.
Can we stop it. Hell, McCain and Graham probably think it’s as wise as Barney does. Good luck!
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