Aren’t those two groups usually unionized?
Most state and local public empolyees are union. And they’ve been promised GOLDEN health care benefits...for LIFE...paid for by you and me. Many of them retire as young as FIFTY YEARS OLD, so we’ll be paying for them for 30 or 40 years!
But the gov’t entities haven’t funded their liabilities. And they’re dreading taxing their local citizens for it.
I suspect this is Obama’s intent to pass FEDERAL funds along to those governments to pay off their union retirees. That is, you and I will be paying for those generously pensioned California public retirees.