[al baby]

So Arnold will be only making 82 cents a year

[taildragger]

Ya but did they take their pensions?

[stboz]

Big whoopie-do....it doesn’t hit until the end of NEXT YEAR!

[edcoil]

“the California Citizens Compensation Commission approved the reduction,”

Wasn't is just last month in their arrogance they gave them a raise?

Maybe yesterday will mean something. I doubt it but we will see.

[davetex]

Should be 81%!!

[St. Louis Conservative]

Who cares.

They need to fire every last unionized public employee and outlaw all public employ unions.

[Secret Agent Man]

The land of fruits and nuts is built upon a house of fiat money and loans. Thanks to massive overspending by public officials.

Hang em. Get new ones. Show them the hanging bodies. That’s what awaits you if you screw up.

And they ought to be hanged. To be 21 billion in the hole after all the taxes people pay out there to begin with is monumental ineptitude on a state-wide level.

[DoughtyOne]

I get kind of a kick out of them taking these cuts, as if it were going to mean that much to them. They come to Excremento as middle class citizens, and leave stinking wealthy. It happens over and over. How does it?

The middle-class are taking it in the shorts right now. There are downward pressures on wages across the board. They are just trying to get buy and will probably never be wealthy.

So these cuts are chump change. They should be fired! If nothing else, they should have their salaries cut by 50% or more. They have failed to do their job. Do any of us still get paid for not doing our work?

[chris_bdba]

IMHO this is silly. They need to decide which depts are the most important and cut them by 10% of workers, the other dept needs to cut their employees by 50% and other depts just need to be consolidated into others. If they are short by however many billions that means the checks bounce, time to STOP spending!

[GOP Poet]

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[Larry381]

But state Sen. Denise Moreno Ducheny (D-San Diego), who will be termed out of the Legislature next year, called the decrease "excessive" and "punitive" and said it may discourage some people from running for state office.

We should be so lucky-getting elected to state office is like winning the lottery for these low-lifes-especially if they're Rats who will never be voted out of office.

[truthguy]

To save really big money, they should get rid of the California Air Resources Board. We could save billions. They are a complete duplication of EPA. We don't need them at all. It's my understanding that not a single person at CARB has be RIFFed. Does anyone know about this?

[Graybeard58]

"How do you find $21 billion in one year?"

Well, if you were the fed gov, just print it.

[MtnClimber]

The country is swirling around the drain and the swirls are getting smaller. The centrists don’t have the sense to jump out of the toilet and fight it.

[Mikey_1962]

But the kickbacks will still be 100%!

[pieceofthepuzzle]

How about they just work for nothing until they balance their budget.

[Jim Noble]

But state Sen. Denise Moreno Ducheny (D-San Diego), who will be termed out of the Legislature next year, called the decrease "excessive" and "punitive" and said it may discourage some people from running for state office.

A highly desirable outcome, IMO.

[Liz]

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guy chainch hiss mind? Ai gonnah haf sexchual reassignment surgeree undt stah in
remakes ov dem Shurley Tempul pichures.

"Ondah go-o-dt schip, Lahllipop, eets a sveet trip to dah kahndy schop,
vere bonbons play, ondah sunnee beetch at Peppahmint Bahy."

"Lumonade stahnds everyvere, cvakerjack bahnds vill dah air.
Undt dere you ahr, hoppy lahndin on a schocolate bah."

See dah sugar bowl do dah tootsie roll wit dah big bad devils foodt cake.
"Iv you eat too musch ooh-ooh, you avake wit a tummy ache.

" Ondah go-o-dt schip Lahllipop, eets a night tvip intuh bed
you hop, undt dream avay ondah goodt schip Lahllipop."

[supermop]

Should have included the retired/defeated politicians that are appointed to the Waste Management Board too.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway.

Citing pay decreases and layoffs being imposed on rank-and-file state workers, the California Citizens Compensation Commission approved the reduction, which also applies to the state attorney general, superintendent of public instruction, controller, insurance commissioner, treasurer, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and members of the Board of Equalization... The commission had wanted to decrease current officials' pay, but the panel's attorney said California law does not allow that... Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who appoints the commissioners and supported their action today, does not take a salary. One legislator, Sen. Abel Maldonado (R-Santa Maria), said he would voluntarily accept the pay cut effective June 1. But state Sen. Denise Moreno Ducheny (D-San Diego), who will be termed out of the Legislature next year, called the decrease "excessive" and "punitive" and said it may discourage some people from running for state office.

What about discouraging people from running for governor? What an a-hole.