Federal aid is for the people, not the State.
Golden opportunity to clean house.
Zero-based budgeting - make every department & employee prove they are worth the money.
He should be the first one to be laid off.
In before the “welcome to the party, pal,” poster.
They’re all Union...This is about collecting unemployement and that extra $600 a week and still be entitled to benefits.
No, Phil..YOU shut your economy down and continue to do so despite mounting evidence that your disease is a flu and not plague.
YOU deal with it. Too many good people are in dire economic straits because of you...i can’t cry over your bureaucratic minions.
Ya me too... Fck them...
It the hard working, tax paying serfs can’t work, their government drone masters shouldn’t be able to work either.
Lead by example, embrace the suck!
“We will have layoffs that will be historic.”
Oh well, ‘we’re all in this together’ ya know.
When government employees feel the pain, the governors will quickly move to restore state tax revenues.
All democrat voters!
Trump has SO many shorthairs in his hands right now.
20 seconds with soap and water, Mr. President.
NJ has 475,000 illegal aliens according to Pew, which is over 5% of their population. +70% are on social welfare.
Cut every penny paid to illegals, turn them all in to ICE, end sanctuary policies, cut 80% of university administrators and end tenure for “educators” at all levels, eliminate environmental nazis, end abortion funding, disband public employee unions, terminate all union “leaders”, end all “climate” programs/subsidies, then reassess other unnecessary State expenses.
Pelosi’s home, safe and eating ice cream, call back later
Layoffs will be coming to Red states as well as Blue states. Just a part of the 20 million-plus unemployed.
Of course it’s all about union power and revolving political contributions of who gets to milk it longer.
This may be the only way the NJ Democrats discover their panic driven decisions have consequences.
Good opportunity for RATS to get people back on the plantation and counter the positive effects of Trump rallies.
In other words, “give me money or i’ll sink this state even further”
As a long time NJ resident, I can assure the rest of you that if there were an immediate PERMANENT layoff of 50% of the NJ State employees, no one I know would notice.
ML/NJ