Posted on 03/11/2010 10:24:24 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick
TRENTON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is looking at ways to privatize jobs to save money as he tries to find to plug a projected $11 billion budget deficit for the 2011 fiscal year. Christie will sign an executive order today to create a task force to recommend ways to privatize jobs. The administration did not specify which jobs or how many could be privatized.
Speaking on New York radio station WCBS, Christie said he’s looking at privatization as a way around the “sweet deal” former Gov. Jon Corzine made with state workers union. Earlier in the week, Christie said he was wrong to think he could alter the new contract that allowed workers to keep pay raises and take furloughs in exchange for a no-layoffs pledge.
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JRBC! Long time, no flirt!
Glad to see Christie taking on cuts anywhere he can. State jobs are often patronage positions, too, which institutionalizes the party who maintains the most power over the longest time.
JRBC! Long time, no flirt!
Glad to see Christie taking on cuts anywhere he can. State jobs are often patronage positions, too, which institutionalizes the party who maintains the most power over the longest time.
Best governor in the great US of A.
Christie has a tough road ahead of him trying to take on the unions. He has proposed a wage freeze that the unions are balking against as well as this...
privatizing doesn’t save money. because there is no effective monitoring of performance, quality suffers. but the big deal is htat the work gets done by a company that can be made to contribute to a pol’s campaign in order to win the contract.
so performance suffers, costs rise, accountability goes out the windows, BUT the pols get another source of campaign cash, AND the people are misled into thinking that the pols are finally doing things right.
Gov. of NJ is among the toughest jobs there is.
He is on the right track.
Problem is that privitization of govt jobs ends up costing more than keeping them public.....because you usually end up with friends and buddies of the people in power with those jobs...and.....those private firms have to make a profit to stay in business......you end up spending more money for the same work.
A lot of government entities are getting away from privitization because it is cheaper to keep the public employees...even with the union deals and benefits
Instead of privitizing.....would be better to cut the un-needed jobs. Privitization of government jobs tends to be socialism GOP-style....and ends up costing taxpayers more money in the long run. Most states are reducing their budgets by cutting privitization and hiring back as govt employees
I do not know if it will work, but taking down the unions by any means necessary is a step in the right direction.
Won’t they have to bid?
That’s been my gut feeling on the issue, too.
And in a very blue state, it will be interesting to see to what extent the public supports him..
it doesn’t work. you get substandard work being done for substandard pay, with most of the money going to cover the expenses of asministration and a profit for the contractor.
AND over time, these people unionize, and their wages go right back up - only you have the profit of the contractor to factor in also.
so you’re worse than when you started.
Nice, Christie showing a pair, this should get the unionistas excited. Why, they may even hold a protest rally or something. Way past time to cull the union herd.
right. and bidding procedures are so obviously perfect? I’ve seen bid specs that pretty much limit the bidding to a single outfit.
you can pretty much control who gets the bid by how you write the specs.
I keep liking what I’m hearing from this guy.
NJ would save much more by by dealing the infestation of illegal aliens.
Free medical care, education, and incarceration cost over $2.1 billion per year.
That number does not include ESL classes, free school breakfasts and lunches, subsidized housing, food stamps, increased cost to health and car insurance, suppression of salaries, closed hospitals, interpretation services in courts, remedial education programs, and the cost of ‘safety net’ use by American workers displaced by illegal alien workers.
Privatize EVERYTHING except police and prosecutors. Everything.
Each time a union contract comes up for negotiation, put it out to bid. Turn all the equipment, records etc. to the winning bidder...and provide them cash incentives to optimize the delivery of efficient services.
Bus drivers? Turn over the entire fleet, shop, parking etc. to a private company. Fire? Outsource the trucks, firestations to a private company. Repeat as necessary.
Please substantiate your assertion with some facts. Where did this occur?
Please cite an example that supports your assertion.
You are talking total unadulterated crap.
Do you work for the SEIU by any chance?
it happened in CT when they “privatized’ group home facilities and nursing homes. it was such a big deal, and wages plumeted with the contractor’s people making less than half what the staet people did. of course, they couldn’t get good labor for that rate, but what the hey? it’s saving money, right? who cared if teh patient care quality went down?
then the employees unionized. and their wages rose sharply. a lot of that cash savings was gone. then they went on strike - which the state employees couldn’t do. and got even more. but nowhere did anyone give a rat’s @$$ about the level of care to the patients. so that remained in the gutter.
so now the cost of running the state’s nursing homes is higher than before, they’re constantly picketing the legislature for more money, and striking, and etc.
but they privatized! isn’t that a good thing?
there was a study during the Bush I administration that showed exactly this: privatization does not save money. and teh unsaid deal is that what privatization does is provisde the political “ins” with another business to hit up for contributions.
i’m sorry that your envy clouds your vision. mosrt people realize that when the state runs something, there is no profit margin, but when they privatized, the profit margin enters into the pic. plus clients of whatever is affected are not protected from strikes, and poor administration. the federal study showed that in order to keep quality of service from suffering, there needs to be a strick monitoring system put into place - which almost universally isn’t. because when you factor in the cost of monitoring, the cost quickly exceeds any savings.
we need to think with out heads instead of our envy at the fortunes of others. the only way for the government to save money on something is to get out of it altogether. period.
too many people use econimic downturns to bust unions without appreciating what unions have done for all of us - union or not.
We support Chris Christie. Kick their butts Gov!
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