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.
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”.
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...
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....)