Saturday, February 7, 2009

State Employees, Want Some Cheese With That Whine?

Fox News Story

California State Employees are a perfect example of why Government is not the solution to the Nation’s economic woes. The State of California is Billions of Dollars in the Red. When a Company is hugely in the red it cuts its workforce. The California unemployment rate is 9.3 and these furloughs will reduce state workers salary by 9.2 percent. This seems like a reasonable ratio.

NEWS FLASH! State workers if you worked for someone other than the benevolent State of California they would slash the workforce by 15%. If I were an employer I’d make sure the most discontent 15% were gone tomorrow, they are likely the least efficient of my employees.

Second point of note, although I really feel your pain, if I worked for a corporation that is in as bad a shape as California I’d be looking for another job because they would be in serious danger of shutting down, indefinitely, that could mean a reduction of your salary by 100%. No call back, no “Back to work on Monday” or any other day. You and thousands of other employees with comparable qualifications trying to find a place in an economy that is shedding jobs.

I’m sure that the 9.3 percent of Californians who are unemployed would gladly trade their status for your 9.2% reduction in pay.

"It feels like we're being punished because we chose a career in state government," said Shelia Byars, 47, a hearing officer at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Van Nuys.
Byars, who expected to lose $400 a month, was among about a dozen union members protesting outside the agency's office in downtown Los Angeles. She said it didn't make sense to close 180 DMV locations because they collect revenue for the state through licenses and registration fees.


Last point, to those of you who work at the DMV, those fees (taxes) you would have collected on Friday, they will be collected another day. You see as taxpayers we don’t get the option to not pay taxes, unlike the State which can decide not to refund overpayment of taxes.

Limburger, that’s a nice stinky cheese. Enjoy.