I understand the concern for the plight of those laid-off, the pain will affect more than just them.
Man, what a mess the state leaders have cooked up in cahoots with voters with questionable albeit good intentions but poor eyesight or forethought ..
They kept voting for more of the same crap and waa laa.
The perfect storm, perhaps... it’s starting to drizzle a bit, them manure pond are gonna stink something fierce this summer in StinkyMento.
In March, 62,000 people lost their jobs in California. We’re now at 11.5% unemployment, an all time high. 1 out of 9 Californians is out of work — almost 650,000 people without jobs. The jobless rate for government workers in California is 2.8% Do I feel for all of them? You bet! It’s tough and I’ll lend a helping hand where I can.
But the melodrama surrounding any state worker is waaaaaaaaay overblown, IMO. Especially when they are talking about a 1 (ONE!) percent reduction. This is the same state government who has imposed tax after tax, regulation after regulation, chased out of the state productive business after productive business— and now has a governor who is having a hissy fit that we won’t give him another $16 billion for his pet projects. We spend a billion dollars a year on his Prop49 after-school babysitting program. We have thrown more than $10 billion at his stem-cell research and solar roof boondoggles. Another $50 billion on bonds for everything from bikepaths to farworker housing.
Last week Arnold was talking about hiring a few thousand more workers because he said the “market” demanded more state workers when the economy is down. Would he ever accept a theory that the state needs fewer workers when the economy is up? Not a chance!
Stepping down from soapbox...