Posted on 05/20/2009 1:27:21 PM PDT by freespirited
A state panel this morning slashed the salaries of elected state officials by 18% -- a day after voters rejected a plan by the governor and Legislature to address the budget crisis.
Citing pay cuts and layoffs being imposed on rank-and-file state workers, the California Citizens Compensation Commission approved the reduction for the governor, legislators and other state officials elected next year.
"I think they should share in the sacrifices that everyone else has had to encounter," said Commissioner Kathy Sands, a former Auburn mayor, after the panel's 5-1 vote at a meeting in Burbank.
The commission had wanted to decrease current officials' pay, but the panel's attorney said California law does not allow that.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
No. I believe in public service. Not cradle to grave enrichment for the ruling class.
gov’t employees pay should be cut. I get so sick of their beaching........”If I was getting what my civilian counterparts were making......” so go get what they are making, dumbhead, they are also working for it instead of sitting on their fat asses blowing people off
If that were the case the correct remedy would be to weaken the other branch (cut them too).
I agree ..... Change the law.
Cut their pay and have them work from their homes. They should be forced to live and work in the districts where they were elected.
They do not need lavish offices. They should all cast their votes via the Internet.
Start firing state workers .... starting at the top.
I gauge compensation based on competition with private industry in California.
With this move, I think salaries are being decreased below the level of competence adequate to perform the job.
That concerns me.
Who, in your mind, should set their salaries based on “contribution”?
I'd take it, and I know many who others who would. And I would be willing to take a qualifying test to do it (unlike many many incumbents).
I could get a lobotomy and still outperform the current Dimwit majority leader half asleep.
Have a uniform qualifying test, if it's such a critical issue.
You know making change, computing what 2/3 is, how many planets are there and the ever challenging --- English language.
That is incredible to the point of stupidity. How many legislatures will cut everyone's salary to get rid of one incompetent or, as in California's case one honest productive legislator?
So, you’ll be filing your papers for the next election, then?
To $1.00? Yeah, that will work. /s
See also post #47. 1600 state employees make in excess of $200,000. Those making more than $100,000 are too many to count (thousands). IMO, people should be paid a competitive wage for the work they do and fired/recalled if they don't perform the duty.
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We don't have "cradle to grave" legislators -- we have term limits.
Do you even live in California?
Ahh. Yeah. How's that working out so far?
Tuesday's pay cut was opposed by Commissioner William Feyling, executive director for Carpenters 46 Northern California Counties Conference Board, who has argued for a 5% reduction.
I smell the rotting flesh of a self-serving Union or union related business...
OK Ahnold, show us you're serious.
Fire the sucker!
That's William Feyling, in case you forgot...
Sorry, I ain't buying that.
If that argument were rational, we would be producing the most efficient cars in the world at the lowest price. How is that working out?
And then the obvious... how about the financial giants who are no longer with us whose executives made tens of million annually? How did that work out?
Lets not get silly here.
I’m not getting your analogy, at all. There is no comparison to automakers who have been regulated out of business.
Now that's pure genius!
They can only be recalled by the idiots who elected them in the first place, even thought their stupidity and/or criminal inclinations affect the entire state.
Give me the comparable parallel in the private sector, please.
The buck stops with the legislature. Their performance also stinks. The measure of their competence is what we have experienced the last 15 years
Time for some stable cleaning...
As for weakening only one branch, you always have the State Supreme Court nullifying the will of the people. I'm sure you're Ok with that, too.
Only if we get to the comical state where no competent citizen (by your definition) would want the job.
I should be a shoo-in...
Care to join me?
Or is 90+k a year an insult to your abilities? Think of free car, gasoline and per diem in addition to that.
Plus you get to sermonize with official authority. Can't beat that!
I want them all cut.
So, what’s your solution? Mine is to work to elect competent, independent, conservative legislators.
The only way to change things is to change the laws and hold the administration accountable.
I see the likelihood of that happening even less if you start slashing the pay of legislators to below $100,000 (w/ no pension) while offering $300,000 salaries (with massive pensions) to those in the administration.
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