by Bob Walsh
CA
is likely to be $54 billion in the shitter with their state budget for
the coming fiscal year. Already they have gotten a two-day-per-month
furlough agreement from SEIU Local 1000, which will save roughly $3
billion. The governor will continue to pressure other state employee
groups other than the CHP and CalFire into accepting furloughs in lieu
of layoffs.
In
addition the current budget proposal does assume a huge visit from the
money fairy. The plan presupposed the federal government is going to
kick down tens of billions of dollars to CA, just because.
The
fallback plan is to find a Unicorn and squeeze it's stomach really hard
so it will shit out gold bars. I think that has probably roughly the
same probability as the feds kicking down several tens of billions of
dollars or Howie becoming the next Pope.
By
pretending the budget is really balanced the rapacious bastards in the
state house get to continue to receive their pay. Ins't that special?
No comments:
Post a Comment