Nearly all of the billions of dollars in cuts the administration has proposed would affect programs for poor Californians...
“Government doesn’t provide services to rich people,” Mike Genest, the state’s finance director, said on a conference call with reporters on Friday. “It doesn’t even really provide services to the middle class.” He added: “You have to cut where the money is.”
So 'jobs' for middle class and rich union members aren't 'services.'
Wasn't Rush saying something a month or two ago about how welfare costs break down to 70% administrative and 30% to the purported beneficaries?
Comports with something I saw in NR in about 1980: In 1976 (the last year for which figures were available at the time), federal poverty aid cost enough to give every poor person (not family -- person) in the country $20,000 for the year. I was in grad school at the time (making $3,000 a year on a teaching stipend, plus whatever I could make on summer jobs), so I don't know what a "normal" salary was then. I'm guessing it wasn't $20,000.
For CA, I'm guessing those welfare workers are unionized and won't be laid off.