Posted on 03/25/2011 7:03:38 PM PDT by dragnet2
AUSTIN (March 25, 2011)--The non-partisan Legislative Budget Board released data Thursday that shows the state would lose 335,000 jobs if the current budget proposal in the House became law.
The board said the budget would eliminate 188,787 state jobs by the end of 2013 and private companies would eliminate 146,457 jobs under the House plan.
Democrats seized on the report, saying it proved steep budget cuts would deal a severe blow to the state's economy.
"The voters did not elect us to eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs," state Rep. Mike Villarreal, D-San Antonio, said in a statement.
“We can't grow the Texas economy with a budget that destroys jobs, hurts neighborhood schools, and makes college more expensive."
Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Texas would be worse off with "dramatic job losses" - if the Legislature raised taxes to deal with the state's multi-billion dollar shortfall.
Interesting how their threatening tens of thousands of private sector jobs, as if they were the problem...
((wow))
Maybe those “private companies” are dependent on revenue support from big government.
Yep, no doubt their state vendors/private contractors...
You can’t spend yourself rich. If you can hire another 500,000.
Pass it and sign it into law!!!
Every State needs to do the same thing!
I'm talking at the fed, state, county, and city level, in nearly every state.
335,000 unproductive jobs eliminated is not enough. Call me when we cut 500,000 and sell one of those office buildings in Austin. We can use the procedes to replentish the rainy day fund.
.....the media is less credible here than most other places, always, always parrots the marxist line and never does their homework............probably got the decimal point in the wrong place and meant 33,500 jobs..............
remember, this is Austin we’re talking about............uh, further to the left than SFO ! The council is busy installing a zillion re-charge outlets all over town for Obama’s Volts at taxpayers expense..............as yet, no one has seen a Volt on the street.................
oh, and the Marxist’s, using other peoples money, just spent several million bucks to put some lighting under a bridge downtown! Nevermind the bridge has been there for fifty years without the lights. The lefties here are just clueless!
I agree and same goes here.
In addition, those left, need to have their retirement pensions and benefits and salaries dramatically reduced.
Question is when to the lay off notices begin?
why are there this many people whose income is derived from supporting the operation of state government?
You have actual state workers, workers in various governmental sub-entities that are partially or wholly dependent on state funding, and then you have companies that live off of government contracts as opposed to actually being private enterprises. All that is fed by the taxpayer, and it’s time for them to get off the state teat.
again I ask. why are there so effin many leeches in Texas of all places????
Wow.
"Private sector" jobs... let me guess, state contractors?
Cool! Most of these jobs are in Austin, which has more in common with California than Texas, so good riddance!
why are there this many people whose income is derived from supporting the operation of state government?
And how many of these are native Texans, I wonder....
As a new Texan, HooHah, it’s wonderful that Texas has been able to identify those personnel and areas to cut.
I only wish that the totally dis-functional Federal government could come up cuts in their costs that were meaningful, and massive!
When they actually start passing out tens of thousands of government pink slips, let me know...I don’t want to miss it.
“The voters did not elect us to eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs”
Want to take that to referedum?
bttt
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