Schwarzenegger to lay off 5,000 state workers

a few more..

Collateral Damage (the story of the death of the CAGOP)
Stay Hungry

61 posted on 05/14/2009 3:34:09 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (RECALL Abel Maldonado; DEPORT Arnold Schwarzenegger; NO on 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F)

To: NormsRevenge

Sure go to the parking lot and use the Obama bumper stickers as firing guidelines.

62 posted on 05/14/2009 3:35:46 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)

I guarantee you a good manager could cut 10% of anything out of any budget. 50,000 should be the starting place. Notice how all the retailers are suddenly profitable on lees sales? It is because they have cut out the deadwood and now can make money. It isn't that hard.

63 posted on 05/14/2009 3:36:53 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit)

Let’s see 5,000 at what $50,000/yr...250 million...drop in the bucket....

64 posted on 05/14/2009 3:37:30 PM PDT by OregonTide

To: NormsRevenge

I wish Massachusetts would do the same only times ten!

One can only dream.

65 posted on 05/14/2009 3:42:28 PM PDT by chapin2500

You’re right — a barf alert was in order.

Repulsive memories, aren’t they?

66 posted on 05/14/2009 3:45:33 PM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado! - NO on Props 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F)

Excellent summation!

The senate Republicans still don’t get it. We’ll have Arlen Crist from Florida as a GOP Senator now.

67 posted on 05/14/2009 3:48:30 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Spay or Neuter your liberal today!)

To: NormsRevenge

5,000 government workers in CA, isn’t that the same as Obama cutting $100 milion dollars from his many trillion dollar budget?

68 posted on 05/14/2009 3:53:47 PM PDT by Jean S

On the one hand you have a Republican Party that hasn’t a clue. And on the other hand you have reality and what third parties always result in.

Conservatism is between a rock and a hard place right now, and the Republican Party is doing everything it can to destroy it.

They love to share power, as long as they and the Democrats are each leading us to the same place.

69 posted on 05/14/2009 3:55:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)

Good luck on Crist, and thanks for the compliment.

70 posted on 05/14/2009 3:56:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)

"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."

Oh, that's a sore spot. I was peripherally involved in his primary campaign, which was a brilliant piece of street warfare. We crushed LA's leftish RINO mayor Dick "Dick" Riordan, the establishment's choice, and even delivered the SF Bay Area to Simon's column. In reminder that conservatism works, Simon's astonishing primary victory was leavened by an unusual turnout of folks attracted by his Reaganesque message, real-world business accomplishments and unrelentingly upbeat attitude. Memories of his supremely principled dad didn't hurt, either.

But rather than consolidating power the day after the primary, Simon went on vacation and off the grid. When he came back from laying on the beach, he was Bill Who? again, a mere hood ornament on an operation that bore little resemblance to his primary team. With Simon not paying attention, Parsky and his pack of RINOs flushed the folks who had brilliantly executed Simon's guerrilla primary campaign, replacing them with nosepicking professional do-nothings who wouldn't rock the boat.

Meanwhile, that quintessential attention-whore Riordan sat petulantly on his perch, toying with the press by saying he might endorse Davis. And little old me, courtesy of a sympathetic intel professional, provided the campaign with a dossier eighteen pages thick regarding some troublesome backstory on some creep named Hindelang who'd been kicked out of a Simon-funded venture for serious chicanery and was, to my eye, maneuvering to cause trouble. With all my primary-campaign contacts out on their asses, I could not get the attention of anyone in the general campaign. No one in Parsky's hand-picked operation saw any urgency, and the campaign just drifted along, lacking the least message or direction and with Simon squelched by his handlers to Ken-doll status. And sure enough, Davis and his flying monkeys got a cooperative judge to fast-track Hindelang's bogus charges and render a convenient fraud verdict against Simon a few days before the election. It was quickly reversed--Hindelang was the crook, not Simon--but you'd never know it from the headlines. "Simon convicted of fraud!"

And that was that. There's blame enough to go around:

o Simon's vanity, sense of entitlement and rookie naivete,

o Parsky's team's corrupt misfeasance,

o The California GOP's Pablum addiction,

o Riordan's childish petulance,

o Davis' predictable sleaze...

Bottom line: California turned its back on a fair Jeffersonian Goldwaterite with real business talent and an impressive endorsement by the then-white-hot Rudy Giuliani, his good friend and fellow former Reagan DOJ official. Actually, if you take L.A. County out of the equation, Simon won the state handily. (Thanks, Dick.) The state's population distribution is such that he who wins L.A. wins the state.

Simon's loss set the stage for RINOnegger to swish into office and girly the place up. We'll be paying for that for generations... at least until another Reagan, or a savvier Simon, comes to the fore.

71 posted on 05/14/2009 3:57:22 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast (1st call: Abbas. 1st interview: Al Arabiya. 1st energy decision: halt drilling in UT. Arabs 1st!)

the largest payrolls have the most fat to cut... looky here
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

72 posted on 05/14/2009 4:00:42 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)

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

Do you realize that the democrats picked Simon to run against Davis ?

73 posted on 05/14/2009 4:07:01 PM PDT by staytrue

There’s oodles of state employees here (340K plus), and federal employees as well(what is it up to now 4 million?).

Heck, Big Gubamint is the largest growth ‘industry’ niche-wise the last few years.. Coincidence?

Like willie sutton said when asked,, why do you rob banks? it’s where they keep the money. Reckun we’re just witnessing a rob-ocracy... or maybe more aptly, a blob-ocracy.

74 posted on 05/14/2009 4:08:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)

To: NormsRevenge

I thought Obama...don’t him he can’t do that.

75 posted on 05/14/2009 4:10:33 PM PDT by Osage Orange (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. - Will Rodgers)

To: RightOnTheLeftCoast

I hadn’t realized it was so bad the RINO leadership submarined Simon’s campaign crew with RINO replacements. Good grief!

I’m going to have to agree that Simon was at fault to let them, but I also have to admit guys like him (and a lot of folks here) just don’t have a clue how destructive the Republican leadership in the state has been over the years.

You can fault Simon, but how is he to know? Honest people who keep their noses to the grind-stone and work hard, just don’t get a chance to keep an eye on the traitors in the party.

He probably thought he was getting the best team possible, and it would be down-hill from there. Little did he know.

Those rat bastards in Sacramento, are donkeys to the max. (The Republican Leadership that is.)

Thanks for your insight.

76 posted on 05/14/2009 4:12:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)

To: NormsRevenge

How many state employees are there that work in California?

>About half.

77 posted on 05/14/2009 4:13:28 PM PDT by Loyal Buckeye

To: staytrue; RightOnTheLeftCoast

I’d like for you to expand on that. That certainly wasn’t my take on it.

78 posted on 05/14/2009 4:14:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)

To: NormsRevenge

Can he do this? I read somewhere years ago that Reagan had more appointees as governor than he did as president.

79 posted on 05/14/2009 4:19:18 PM PDT by Theodore R.

To: CounterCounterCulture

A few days before the October 7, 2003 vote, Arnold staged an elaborate demonstration that clearly illustrated the appeal of the connection between the on-the-ground person running for governor and the on-the-screen characters from some of his well-known movies. Arnold's campaign chartered a caravan of buses, all named after his movies. "Running Man" and "Total Recall" carried his staff and friends; "Predator" buses were for the media. The four-day tour of the state was called the "California Comeback Express." While none of these busses featured references to the Terminator, the effects was to keep our attention focused on Arnold's movie characters. Like the Terminator, Arnold's characthers in The Running Man, The Predator, and Total Recall all were notable for overcoming preposterously difficult obstacles to prevail over their opponent and, in one way or another, to save the world. California voters could be confident that the "running man" in the "total recall" election was the same as the Terminator himself. [Arnold Schwarzenegger By Louise Krasniewicz, Michael Blitz, pp127-128, ]

80 posted on 05/14/2009 4:28:01 PM PDT by calcowgirl (RECALL Abel Maldonado! - NO on Props 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F)

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