Cenedril_Gildinaur wrote: |
Gov. Schwarzenegger has given job security guarantees to the SEIU members, the cubicle workers and assessors and janitors. Now that he's given those job security guarantees to the expendable employees he's telling the voters that he will have no choice but to lay off the fire fighters if we don't pass his ballot props.
Just the opposite of what is going on in some of the cities: the firefighters and police are eating up the general fund at a million dollars a month, in a totally unsustainable way, because taxes for property, construction, and sales just aren't coming in during this economy. Each firefighter and policeman is getting double his already attractive salary in overtime. Then he gets to retire at 50 with full medical benefits and a very hefty retirement. The cities keep feeding the police/fire salary and retirement fund with their reserves from other departments, until they are dry, then they lay off their cubicle workers and other expendibles (planners, engineers, accountants, lawyers, librarians, parks gardeners, senior center workers, sewer maintainers, electrical workers, IT repairmen, etc.) who are already overworked and understaffed. This goes on until the city goes bankrupt. Then the firefighters and police try to blame someone else for strangling the goose that was trying, but failing, to lay golden eggs for them each month.