“Massive federal aid is the only real solution.”
Du Phuk you say.
If there is less demand for services, then throwing money to keep givernment employees on the payroll isn’t the solution.
Givernment needs to contract just like private businesses do when there is less demand.
You did yourselves and the citizens of this country by scaring everyone away from their offices.
All those employees not going into the offices of San Francisco will not be dining at restaurants in the ares nor shopping at retailers nearby.
Just say goodbye
It's not just the current salaries.
It's also the pensions. Billions upon billions in state pensions.
Very, very, very expensive pensions. Pensions that certain courts have deemed untouchable, but the reality is now that many states don't have the money to pay them. At all.
That could crash the whole shebang.
COVID-19 will turn the state pension problem into a fiscal crisis