Posted on 08/30/2011 6:16:23 PM PDT by dragnet2
Reported by KFI, John and Ken radio show, with confirmation links below.
Other confirmation links:
CA Employs 2,160,000 government employees
This does not include the tens of thousands employed by the Feds in California!
Let that sink in...
They are paid 9.7 BILLION PER MONTH... Just for the state and local government employees, not including the the fed employees working in CA.
This does NOT include the costs of their pensions!
61,000 are employed in the prison system alone!
64,000 are employed at the welfare department!
722,847 Are government education employees!
Nearly 100,000 are employed by public law enforcement!
Average Monthly salary of these government employees is: $5,500 per month.
Other Confirmation links.
** Despite budget cuts and layoff warnings, California still hiring and workforce still growing **
http://www.sacbee.com/politics/story/2094403.html
The Sacramento Bee
Aug. 9, 2009
** State job number on upswing despite recession **
California’s state government has managed to add thousands of jobs during this 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
http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_12984385?nclick_check=1&forced=true
not to mention gubermint employees and their pensions...
Reform advocates are spotlighting those with extravagant pensions
— $100,000 or more — as a way to get the public’s attention and
emphasize that the current system is unsustainable.
http://www.modbee.com/editorials/story/803636.html
Perhaps the real reason why public-sector pension costs have not been tackled is that the full bill has never been revealed to taxpayers.
** The great public-sector pension rip-off **
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13988606
From The Economist print edition
July 9, 2009
JOIN a private-sector company these days and you will be very lucky if you get a pension linked to your final salary. In Britain almost three out of four companies that retain such schemes have closed them to new employees. The cost of paying such benefits, which are partly linked to inflation and offer payouts to surviving spouses, is simply too high now that many retirees are surviving into their 80s.
Yet most new public-sector employees in Britain and America continue to benefit from pensions linked to their salaries. The pension costs facing the public sector are roughly the same as those facing the private sector; their employees are likely to live just as long. But because of the presumed largesse of future taxpayers, governments seem under much less pressure to reduce their pension costs. In 2005 a reform package in Britain raised the retirement age for new state employees, but still left existing employees able to retire at 60.
BTTT
Closing on my Irving, TX home TOMORROW!
Adios, CA (land of my birth and my home for the last 50+ years) — your insanity can be subsidized by the few productive folks and the idiots in the Silicon Valley dumb enough to stay there.
I actually had to make a formal statement for the loan of “reasons for relocation” (they ask for all kinds of strange stuff) I replied with this formal response:
“* Political, financial and cultural conditions in California have deteriorated to the point of being intolerable. To wit, ‘there are more people in the cart than pulling it.’
“* FD2003 is a business traveler. His work takes him across the country, although rarely to the business-unfriendly West Coast. Dallas is centrally located which will reduce his travel time significantly.”
I didn’t say, since they would not have gotten it, is that TEXAS FREEPERS ARE THE BEST!!!! (/TX shoutout) ;) :)
You’ll love the weather...lol
bump.
I predict this thread will be as popular as a public pay phone in the senseless murder district...
Never make 50 posts...
The reason should be clear....
>>You’ll love the weather...lol<<
40+ days at 100+?
Hey, God created central A/C for a reason!
I am hoping to drag wither my East or West along with me.
Remember, if it rains starting mid October, I want the credit!
Enjoy!
Welcome! You weren’t born here, but you got here as fast as you could....
:)
This is why the state is broke.
welcome to Irving!
Every government job costs at least two private sector jobs. It costs to support government and they only regulate, they never produce. The two job markets are inversely linked. The more government jobs, the more private jobs are suppressed. To speak of Government jobs like they are a boon to the economy is disingenuous at best.
Unreal
I’ve always respected your opinion.
Looking at the numbers, you do not have enough patriots, conservatives and sane people to stop the fascist insanity in CA.
What’s your solution?
I have a solution. I want to see if your idea parallels mine.
Just casting a question.
This is what is going to start the civil war.
bump
No surprise.
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