Posted on 12/19/2008 11:27:36 AM PST by SmithL
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration is telling labor unions that it will order two-day-a-month unpaid furloughs for state employees beginning in February to help the state save cash amid its budget crisis.
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The furloughs would apply to all general fund and special fund employees and amount to about a 10 percent pay cut, Blanning said. The unpaid furloughs would begin in February and continue through June 2010, he said.
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The worst thing for the union is that Californians will see how easy it is to get along without bureaucrats. Maybe they’ll demand a permanent furlough for these shiftless looters.
Cut every state agency by 5 percent. Do it again.
18 hours/week sounds about right for government worker unproductive time.
He should do the same thing with the education system, including the colleges.
Soon-to-come headline, “State Controller John Chiang Vetoes Governor’s Furlough Program”
Hmmm........10%. Very small potatoes. My paltry fixed income dropped by nearly 30% after the “meltdown”.
“Hmmm........10%. Very small potatoes. My paltry fixed income dropped by nearly 30% after the “meltdown”.”
I hear ya. If interest rates get any lower, I’ll be paying them to store my money in their stinkin’ banks.
This is one of the main reasons why California, along with most other Democrat-controlled parasite nests, keep thousands of phantom positions on the books - - so they can “eliminate” them when they want to con people into believing they are “cutting” back. Arnold will no doubt throw in a bunch of temp, seasonal, and part-time positions to inflate the number even further.
Arnold’s number will also include positions that have been vacated by retirement, death, criminal conviction, whatever (although these are the very positions that are normally thrown into the rainy-day bank of phantom government “jobs”.) See, by not filling these positions, he is pretending to “furlough” them or “lay them off”.
These phantom positions are also used for repositioning a “layed off” government worker. In the end, it’s all a big shell game and you will be hard-pressed to find many actual living, healthy full-time government “workers” who find themselves unemployed and job hunting. If any...
YEAH...today, my husband’s company, which has been laying off all year, announced pay freezes for all the salaried and executives for 2009......I want to see GOVERNMENT workers salaries FROZEN!!!
You are mighty generous. Arnie could cut 50% of government staff if he just took internet access away from every work station.
Then these bloated government agency workers would have nothing to do but the actual work they were supposed to do.
Of course he'd also have to issue security cards and security locks on bathroom doors so that employees would have to swipe to gain access, and have their bathroom breaks recorded to prevent bathroom break abuse, and re install those old punch clocks to prevent extended lunch break abuse, but measures could be taken to get productivity -an honest days work- out of government employees
It’s Christmas...I’m feeling generous.
You probably already are. Add up all the bank fees for withdrawing your money, service fee's, automatic bill payments, etc. and you will find you DO pay the bank to store your money there.
The only bank accounts that actually pay you anything these days are so called 'high interest' accounts that require you to maintain an minimum balance and limit the number of transactions you can do a month.
Bonds pay next to nothing as well these days.
If you want to make any money with your money these days, you have to play the markets aggressively, or pick some stock and just wait for better days.
I think preservation of capital is more the order of the day.
I thought I read no one in CA can cut state employees’ salaries because it was all programmed in COBOL and no one knew how to change the coding?
Too funny. I guess someone must have stepped forward.
Maybe if they booted all the illegals back across the border it might just free up a few jobs for folks while decreasing the cost of public services?
HMMMMM....
Two days off a month...
Someone plot the productivity change
(then another two days, then....)
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