Posted on 08/04/2009 6:35:19 PM PDT by John Jorsett
California's state government has managed to add thousands of jobs during the past year, defying a mammoth budget deficit and a brutal recession.
The job growth for state workers contrasts with the loss of 759,000 jobs in California's private industry in the past 12 months.
"I don't know how this can happen," said David Kline, a spokesman for the California Taxpayers Association. "A lot of people are having trouble keeping their jobs, paying their bills and feeding their families. Most taxpayers would be incredulous if they see these numbers."
During the 12 months that ended in June, state government added 3,600 jobs in California, according to numbers compiled by the California Employment Development Department. That's a 0.7 percent gain, even as private industry posted a 6 percent decrease in its total job base.
Lynelle Jolley, a spokeswoman for the Department of Personnel Administration, said those jobs have been added in the University of California and California State University systems. She said the executive branch, which includes the bulk of state workers outside of the Legislature, the judiciary and higher education, lost 600 jobs over that time.
But critics believe cutting jobs, not hiring thousands, should have been the answer to the recession. "When there is no money left in the till, you should economize and cut back on spending," Kline said.
To be sure, the state has saved millions through unpaid furloughs, which union officials say amount to a roughly 14 percent pay cut for affected employees.
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Pretty soon, government will be the only game in town.
I was both stunned and stuned when I read this this am. Just amazing.
If yer not government, yer little people. /paraphrase>
They are the only game in town.
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this sounds so crazy that there must be a reason behind it. pelosi(who is really in charge in CA) might want to just control everyone by having everyone work for the government. that’s about what the obamanation is doing by eliminating jobs and creating community activists to spread his communism.
‘Change,’ for Alinsky, invoked radical socialism and meant the redistribution of wealth. [For] Obama [it] means the same, but by hiding the reference he avoids having to be explicit about the radical goal behind the theme.”
Some Key Alinsky Code Words
Change - Eliminating the free enterprise system and replacing it with socialism, and peacefully overthrowing the present government and replacing it with communism.
Community Organizer - One who (1) agitates by identifying and magnifying the real or imagined failings of the establishment as they supposedly apply to the target group, (2) organizes the target group into a political force, and (3) turns that force into “change”.
In a drone like fashion the state of California government is performing the only way they know how.
Perhaps something is to be said for consistency of directive?
Life just hums along in higher education as it is immune from recessions. Higher education in Colorado is supposed to have some major cuts but I have only seen no salary increases. The staff may be subject to furlough days but I am not sure.
I am not fooled by the situation however. The higher education bubble will burst soon. Higher education is simply not sustainable. All of my professor colleagues voted for Obama. I warned them that they were voting against their long term best interest. Business schools will suffer devasting enrollment declines without strong private sector investment. The ruling regime has disdain for the private sector. Vast amounts of resources are being transferred from the private sector to the public sector. Students do not want jobs in the private sector except for those sectors closely associated with government.
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I have a difficult time believing that CA is now in the same situation it has been in for almost 80 years!
give me a break, as you so eloquently said.
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that’s funny!
I think you’re quite right. I’m increasingly alarmed that the anti-evaluative and self-esteem-based characteristics of the grade-school education system developed over the past 30 years seem to be directing the majority of students into bureaucratic rat-mazes of ever-increasing complexity and non-productivity. When I was growing up (and that doesn’t make it right) I was taught that working for the government was, for the most part, a job for slugs. It was nothing to be excited or motivated about, particularly for the bureaucrat or the clerical segments. I’m sorry I was guided that way, because the folks working for the gov’t now have the fattest pensions and benefits and have utterly no worries as to being laid off or fired. (It wasn’t that way when I was growing up) But now, it’s turned into an ideal.
Three levels of government push down onto Tax payers. Fed, State and City, they over-extended their power. We need to stop voting career politician, and get rid of 2 Party systems. Our Country deserves better.
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