Posted on 07/31/2010 12:06:50 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
California has been ground zero in the war between over paid state employees unions and government budgetary concerns and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has leveled yet another salvo in that battle by again ordering more furloughs for state workers.
After ending the previous program to furlough 200,000 state workers the Governor has introduced a scaled back plan after the state controller reported that state accounts would be in the red by October.
Unlike the last time, Schwarzenegger's newest attempt is open ended and will end "when lawmakers pass a 2010-11 budget." There are other differences in this scaled back plan including thousands of new employee exemptions....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Lots of blame goes to the majority voters of that lame state. Also read the link below from 2005.
...”The most important of the measures Schwarzenegger backed was Proposition 76 that would have capped the amount of money the debt-ridden state can spend annually and allowed mid-year budget cuts. It failed by a massive 38.6 pct of votes to 61.4, with 90 pct of votes tallied.
His Proposition 77, which would have taken away the state legislature’s power to draw political boundaries and handed it to an appointed panel of retired judges, failed to pass by 41.3 pct of votes to 58.7, the California secretary of state’s website showed.
His Proposition 75, which would have forced public service unions to obtain members’ permission each year to use dues for political campaigns, a move that would hurt the Democratic Party that depends on union support, failed by 47.5 pct of votes to 52.5....”
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2005/11/09/afx2326103.html
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