Posted on 07/02/2003 4:41:23 PM PDT by John Jorsett
Roger Hedgecock was talking about some interesting developments in Sacramento. Seems that the Democrats and Davis are actually considering a "no new taxes" budget, since the alternative, with the Republicans standing fast, is no budget at all. According to Hedgecock, Davis has told the public employees that they're going to have to forego their expected pay raises for a year. When the employee unions balked, he threatened to start firing people. To understand what's going on, you have to know that the CA state bureaucracy keeps what are called "pahntom" employees around. These are funded positions, but which have no personnel in them, and are used as a slush fund of ready money for whatever wild hair the bureaucrats get up their ... well, let's say noses. In the past, when the state wanted to make a show of "laying people off", it would just abolish their existing positions and then the employees would be shifted into the phantom positions. No one would really lose his job. Now, Davis has taken the "phantom" money off the table and told the unions that unless they "voluntarily" forego the raises, the laid-off people are going to have nowhere to go and will actually be off the payroll.
As Hedgecock says, none of this would be happening had the recall effort not been instituted. We've hit him so hard between the eyes that he's willing to piss off his biggest supporters, the public employees unions. Thank Ted Costa, Darryl Issa, and the Republicans of the assembly for presenting a united front.
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This may be a little too Pollyanish of me, but I think not. I'm of the mind that when people actually have to start paying that car tax, that's going to be the icing on the cake.
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