Ahhhnuld Terminates Jobs and paydays in Cal-eeh-four-nyah

[marmar]

from the LA Times:



Schwarzenegger orders mass layoffs, unpaid furloughs
Union leaders for state employees vow to challenge the legality of the mandatory time off, which amounts to about a 9% pay cut according to the governor's finance department.

By Patrick McGreevy and Jordan Rau
December 20, 2008


Reporting from Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday ordered mass layoffs and unpaid furloughs for state workers starting in February to address California's growing fiscal crisis.

Under his executive order, 238,000 employees will be forced to take off two unpaid days per month through June 30, 2010. Managers will receive either the furlough or an equivalent salary reduction during the same period.

H.D. Palmer, spokesman for Schwarzenegger's finance department, said the mandatory time off is the equivalent of about a 9% pay cut for affected workers. He said the furloughs would save the state more than $1.2 billion.

It is unclear how many people will lose their jobs. Palmer said each department will have to cut its payroll by 10% and will make its own decisions on how many workers must go.

Schwarzenegger attempted a few months ago to unilaterally reduce the pay of state employees, but his order never took effect. State Controller John Chiang said the state's payroll system was incapable of carrying it out. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget20-2008dec20,0,4411499.story

[FreakinDJ]

1. The RATpublican mantra of Kill the Working Class

nice to see Aaanold is showing his true colors

[Double T]

2. What the hell else can A. S. do?

The means don't meet the extremes. The days of our phony US economy and colliefornia's land-of-make-believe are finished. Reality is a bitch and it will get a lot bitchier as time goes on. The wealthy's acts of corruption are paid for by sacrificing the rest of US.

[gratuitous]

3. I suppose a little wealth redistribution is out of the question

After all, those people in Beverly Hills and Malibu and La Jolla stole that money fair and square, and asking them for some of it back would just be so . . . unseemly. Much better for working people to take it in the shorts than ask Ah-nuld to hand over some of his royalties and residuals for the state coffers.

[Double T]

4. The wealthy just emptied the US Treasury.

Redistribution of wealth continues at warp speed in the direction of the wealthy. The shanty towns in Tijuana are the future of america unless 'we' do 'something'. Colliefornia can't pay state workers with money they don't have.

[Iggo]

5. Raise taxes on the rich.

Or did you mean what other cuts could he make?

[Double T]

6. Raise taxes on the rich? Do YOU want to be declared the antichrist?

I Agree with YOU! If the wealthy want ALL of the $$$$$$$, then the SOBs should pay ALL of the taxes. Cuts against the working person are usually the answer decided by the wealthy and/or powerful.

[alarimer]

7. He VETOED a bill that would have helped.

Because it raised taxes on rich assholes like himself.