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Schwarzenegger to lay off 5,000 state workers
Sac Bee ^ | 5/13/09 | Kevin Yamamura

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, ..

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: calbudget; caleducation; calemployment; california; calinitiatives; layoff; schwarzenegger; stateworkers
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To: NormsRevenge

How about another 5000 next month? And maybe 10,000 the month after that!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!


21 posted on 05/14/2009 1:51:55 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules ("We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots)
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To: NormsRevenge

Is this an attempt to make voeters vote YES on his initiatives May 19th—well it does not sway me vote NO and do not lay of the workers Fire them and get rid of the open positions.


22 posted on 05/14/2009 1:52:48 PM PDT by bzybee
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To: NormsRevenge

5000?...thats not even a flea sitting on a hair on the back of the elephant. They could fire 500,000 and NO ONE would ever notice.


23 posted on 05/14/2009 1:53:36 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: NormsRevenge

“. . .and, surprisingly, not one of them was a personal friend of the Governor.”

“Keepz youz friendsz closez andz firez youz enemiez” he was heard to mumble while walking his wife’s dog.


24 posted on 05/14/2009 1:53:42 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Are these Union Workers?


25 posted on 05/14/2009 1:53:46 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Carry_Okie

As would I. Man what an awful administration...

Do you realize that if the Republican Party leadership had gotten behind Bill Simon, most all of this could have been avoided? That’s rhetorical...

The guy almost pulled it out, with almost no federal or state leadership help.


26 posted on 05/14/2009 1:54:40 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: NormsRevenge
So - here's an easy one:

What do you call 5,000 layoff notices to California state workers?

27 posted on 05/14/2009 1:56:06 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: NormsRevenge
Wow!

5,000 layoffs!

Must be summer and these are all snow plow drivers.

28 posted on 05/14/2009 1:56:09 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Reagan wasn’t perfect as Governor but some good things happened in this state too under his leadership as well as the nation later on.

aRnold IS no Reagan. Thank goodness he can never be Pres_ent like another foreigner in chief. ;-)


29 posted on 05/14/2009 1:57:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Which unions?


30 posted on 05/14/2009 1:57:26 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: NormsRevenge

Wait until the SEIU and AFSCME get into action. They’ll have Obama demand the Governator not layoff any unionized employees lest they want to forgo billions in “free” stimulus money from the benevolent federal government.


31 posted on 05/14/2009 1:58:39 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: NormsRevenge
your fired!!!


32 posted on 05/14/2009 1:58:44 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: NormsRevenge
5,000. That's about 1% of full/pt workers, right?
CALIFORNIA

STATE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT DATA: MARCH 2007
CALIFORNIA STATE GOVERNMENT

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                                       334,432   1,901,011,259      145,162    217,761,653     387,168   2,118,772,912
Financial Administration                     20,112      89,725,715        3,466      5,760,570      22,142      95,486,285
Other Government Administration               3,754      20,402,982          327        776,190       3,904      21,179,172
Judicial and Legal                            4,517      26,401,385          471      1,119,212       4,710      27,520,597
Police Protection Total                      13,001      70,938,664        1,244      1,546,875      13,283      72,485,539
  Police Officers Only                        7,550      50,244,320          456        689,705       7,627      50,934,025
  Other Police Employees                      5,451      20,694,344          788        857,170       5,656      21,551,514
Corrections                                  54,344     336,252,292        2,146      7,114,892      55,710     343,367,184
Highways                                     20,058     134,098,600        1,127      3,872,182      20,816     137,970,782
Public Welfare                                3,576      15,947,813          240        761,916       3,745      16,709,729
Health                                       11,027      60,275,651        1,536      3,718,152      11,761      63,993,803
Hospitals                                    35,337     207,326,559        8,414     24,451,313      39,829     231,777,872
Social Insurance Administration              17,417      75,774,163        1,465      3,373,115      18,299      79,147,278
Solid Waste Management                          360       1,978,490           61        198,209         397       2,176,699
Parks and Recreation                          2,311      11,033,022        1,749      2,757,233       3,370      13,790,255
Natural Resources                            12,209      65,198,644        2,616      4,597,601      14,022      69,796,245
Education Total                             110,085     622,302,075      117,178    149,481,380     147,354     771,783,455
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
All Other and Unallocable                    26,324     163,355,204        3,122      8,232,813      27,826     171,588,017


33 posted on 05/14/2009 2:00:25 PM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado! - NO on Props 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F)
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To: NormsRevenge

I would say I cannot wait until this slime of a state collapses, but I know in my heart it’s not going to be allowed to happen-somehow. EVERYTHING that’s bad starts there and spreads to the rest of the country like a giant cancer.


34 posted on 05/14/2009 2:01:43 PM PDT by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney (Stuck Between Barack and a Hard Place.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I have no more love for Bill Simon — he was one of Arnie’s most ardent supporters.


35 posted on 05/14/2009 2:03:31 PM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado! - NO on Props 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F)
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To: NormsRevenge

How many are illegal aliens?


36 posted on 05/14/2009 2:06:23 PM PDT by donna (Required experience for the next Republican President: Military Service!)
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To: US_MilitaryRules; Carry_Okie; DoughtyOne

5,000 is only about 1% of the total employees (see numbers I just posted).

Let’s start with 30,000 (or more) now and go from there.


37 posted on 05/14/2009 2:06:45 PM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado! - NO on Props 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F)
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To: DoughtyOne
Do you realize... That’s rhetorical...

LMAO

The guy almost pulled it out, with almost no federal or state leadership help.

That's charitable. Rove put Parsky in position to force Simon to take Wilson-Jones and Ed Rollins. It was the kiss of death.

38 posted on 05/14/2009 2:07:14 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (There are people in power with a passion for evil.)
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To: calcowgirl
I have no more love for Bill Simon — he was one of Arnie’s most ardent supporters.

One can forgive that as party loyalty. I don't see it as his preference. Giuliani on the other hand...

39 posted on 05/14/2009 2:09:08 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (There are people in power with a passion for evil.)
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To: Carry_Okie

40 posted on 05/14/2009 2:14:28 PM PDT by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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