Posted on 01/16/2011 5:41:19 PM PST by george76
Deep layoffs of city workers go into effect on Tuesday - cutting up to 383 jobs, or one-fourth of the city's employees. The exact number depends on whether public workers' unions make last-minute concessions...
Three of Camden's past seven mayors have been sent to prison for corruption, including one who was convicted while he was still running the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
“Obvious then that it was No Man’s Land.”
Definitely a war zone.
The schools pull that same crap: “We’ll have to double class size, fire half the teachers, layoff janitors, etc. etc.” Meanwhile the administrators keep drawing $100,000 plus salaries until the scared public grants more taxes or another bond issue. Cheap trick, just like threatening to cut cops and firefighters.
This does not make sense. They are going to need those people after the real cuts come to all the social services programs.
How many city hall bureaucrats are getting cut? If the elected officials truly acted for the public’s best interest wouldn’t police and fire personnel be the last cut?
Maybe there’s nothing left to steal or burn anymore. Camden: the Detroit of New Jersey.
Does not matter to Illinois. Dem Rat Gov. just raised the state income tax 68%.
Thousands hired in Illinois ahead of new pension system
By SEAN DRISCOLL and ANDY BROWNFIELD
THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER
Posted Jan 16, 2011 @ 11:30 PM
When it comes to pensions in Illinois, a day can mean all the difference in the world.
Thanks to the eight-month span between Gov. Pat Quinns approval of a pension reform bill last spring and its implementation Jan. 1, any public worker hired in Illinois as late as Dec. 31 was enrolled in a far more lucrative pension plan than those hired after that date.
A GateHouse News Service analysis of pension data has identified nearly 19,000 public workers at all levels of Illinois government hired in that span, from bus drivers to university presidents.
http://www.sj-r.com/carousel/x1334356420/Thousands-hired-in-Illinois-ahead-of-new-pension-system
Exactly!
Are there no bureaucrats that can be cut?
Can they cut any ethnic community centers? gay libraries?
I’m sure they have a lot of PC spending they could eliminate
As long as they don’t cut the Mexican/Gay Community Center & Dating Club they promise not to riot.
The “larger issue”:
“The larger issue, which is the most frightening and disturbing, is a governor of the state who tells the city of Camden, ‘You have to get your house in order and in four years, you have to be self-sufficient,’” he (Professor Gillette) said. “The idea that Camden could pull itself up by the bootstraps, that can’t happen.”
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