[Fzob]

I want to puke.

[cableguymn]

Next week the city council will decide if cuts are needed to the full-time lifeguard force.......

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IF?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Try HOW MUCH TO CUT!!!

[Graybeard58]

Replace them with signs, “Swim at your own risk”.

[martin_fierro]

Newport Beach staff directory

[C. Edmund Wright]

Civil servants you know....

[Doc Hunter]

Gee, I spent 34/7 in uniform for 25 yrs and my retirement pay equals my food stamp pay while in the military and I didn’t get any special allowance for sun screen.

[Lurker]

Back in my youth I was a lifeguard. I made $4.50 an hour. No benefits.

[databoss]

How about swim at your own risk!

[ClearCase_guy]

Fraud, waste, and abuse.

Politicians always say that they will cut out the fraud, waste and abuse.

But they don't. They clearly don't. Which is why just lopping an immediate 50% off every government budget might be the only hope.

[jmcenanly]

They seem to assume that the lifeguards will not go on to bigger and better things. For example, this guy

went on to two very full careers as an actor, and as a statesman

[Pearls Before Swine]

My main observation is that these sorts of abuses are endemic and virtually unavoidable because government has too much money and too many functions. There isn’t, and will never be, enough sunshine for these sorts of abuses to be thoroughly exposed, although they will surface from time to time. Another poster-child for smaller government and for non-unionization of government employees.

My second observation: Baywatch pays well!

[Thank You Rush]

My daughter grew up on those beaches as a teenager. It didn’t occur to us to encourage her to have a career being a lifeguard. Who would have “thunk” it?

[celtic gal]

well they do have to watch out for jaws /s

[WKUHilltopper]

You have got to be f’n kidding?? And they wonder why they’re broke??

[StAnDeliver]

"The City Manager in Newport Beach is proposing to cut over 25 percent of the full-time lifeguard staff, believing the winter wpork can be done with fewer employees."

The key here is to find secured creditors with a way to force the city into bankruptcy or at least receivership; short of that, sue CalPERS directly.

[libertarian27]

According to the City Manager, the typical Daily Deployment Model in the winter for these lifeguards is 10 hours per day for four days each week, mainly spent driving trucks around, painting towers, ordering uniforms and doing basic office work—none are actually manning lifeguard towers.

So they are extremely well compensated seasonal janitors with three day weekends...what do they do in the summer - same thing but with more sunblock?

[mewzilla]

A SEAL's Salary: Typical Navy SEAL Makes About $54,000

[101voodoo]

Ca is LOADED with liberal freakin’ MORONS

[Always A Marine]

BUMP for later when I can shout at the top of my lungs.

[blueunicorn6]

I guess BAYWATCH should have been called PAYWATCH.