‘Historic’ N.J. public worker layoffs coming if no new coronavirus aid from feds, Murphy says

NJ.com ^ | 4/18/2020 | Michael Sol Warren

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https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/government-layoffs-service-cuts-start-coronavirus-guts-michigan-budgets
Government layoffs, service cuts start as coronavirus guts Michigan budgets

https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2020/04/more-than-130-genesee-county-government-employees-get-temporary-layoff-notices.html
More than 130 Genesee County government employees get temporary layoff notices

https://www.hobokengirl.com/hoboken-city-hall-layoffs/
Hoboken City Hall Announces Layoffs of 26 City Workers

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-local-government-layoffs-pay-cuts-cities-counties-states
Coronavirus takes its toll on local US governments as layoffs, pay cuts loom

[Bob434]

using blackmail- playing with people’s lives in order to extort money from the feds- Thugs- one and all in NJ gov!

[GnuThere]

Lay them all off and if people notice, add back 20%.

[tennmountainman]

Not one single dime of tax payer money to ANY State.

[moviefan8]

They will not get back pay if they are on a furlough. You are wriong.

Funny how so many get things wrong about government workers here.

[null and void]

sweet!

should of nearly all been laid off from the start!

I mean.. if it saves ONE life!

*cough*

now that the GOVERNMENT employees are starting to lose THEIR jobs, you KNOW the end is near!

Not just the end of the pan-demic, but the end of the dem-panic...
...and the democrats!

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[Vendome]

Seems to me you should have been laying off already since there is at least a 50% reduction in demand for givernemrnt services.

Get rid of everyone who is just sitting around

I guarantee you they are making hilarious videos in their spare time , with their collea6 and posting to Fakebook...

[newnhdad]

Sounds to me they need to stop giving free stuff to illegals.

[chris37]

I guess he wasn’t thinking about the budget either.

Oh well.

[Sir Napsalot]

Murphy said it like this is a bad thing.

Layoff all of the public workers. Hire only as needed. Fed gubmint and other states should follow suit.

Trump’s finally draining the swamp. With help from Dems/Pelosi, no less.

[bramps]

At least in my area in Massachusetts the DPW is the living definition of lazy and inefficient. Let them all go and hire men and woman that know how to work and get things done.

[dennisw]

What’s not like? Then the suck-ass public workers can rebel against clueless Phil their Guv.

Why should only the private sector suffer from imbeciles at the top.

[hal ogen]

Maybe because every government “worker” is non-essential. They just don’t want to admit it. Screw’em.

[Sooth2222]

If the employees aren’t essential (and apparently nursing home inspectors aren’t essential in NJ), why do they have jobs?

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Suck it up buttercups.

You think that your legion of unneeded employees in New Jersey are to be supported by the rest of us.

Terminate their employment and let them see what the millions of workers in the private sector are having to deal with.

[jmaroneps37]

Mister Sardonicus has given away his state’s tax money to buy illegal alien votes. Now he is crying, “Oh help me help kind sir, it is winter and I used all my fire wood for summer bar b ques.”

[Bonemaker]

Layoff police then normal humans can go back to work. With nobody to enforce your rubbish taxes will start flowing again and you can hire police back. Easy.

PS shove your gun laws Murph.

[lasereye]

The schools are already shut down right? That’s a huge part of state and local employees.

[Rummyfan]

Furlough all the toll takers on the NJ Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway and just make it free to drive on them for the duration. As a by-product, it would show that the state is in this with us.

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]