Posted on 04/19/2020 3:56:48 AM PDT by Bruiser 10
Gov. Phil Murphy painted a dire outlook for New Jersey public-worker jobs on Saturday afternoon, pleading for more financial aid to lift a state economy that has been cratered by the coronavirus.
“We will have layoffs that will be historic,” Murphy warned, as he called for Congress to send more direct aid to states, and as he urged state lawmakers to help him borrow billions of dollars.
He added that the layoffs would be felt through New Jersey, at the state, county and local levels.
“That’s what’s at stake. I don’t know how many, but it is big, big numbers,” Murphy said during his daily coronavirus press briefing in Trenton.
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Exactly, especially in States that are run by public employee unions.
Pension costs are a huge part of the problem.
Note to the public sector: I hate to break this to you, but the truly essential workers are the employed, home-owning, tax-paying people who provide the money for your salaries, pensions, and health bennies.
And those essentials can’t do that if they are UNEMPLOYED, BROKE, AND/OR HOMELESS.
My family is going on a trip next week to an adjacent state where the state parks are open. Happy to divert some sales tax away from the yutz in Raleigh.
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