New 5 percent pay cut for state workers on the table

Source: Sacramento Bee

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to propose a 5 percent across-the-board pay cut for state workers to save nearly $500 million in next year's budget and preserve cash, a spokesman said Thursday.

Communications Director Matt David said the cut will be included in an additional $3 billion worth of reductions the administration will propose to the Legislature on Friday. The latest round of cutting is necessary because the economy has deteriorated since the governor first proposed to close a $21.3 billion gap between state income and spending.

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Time for a sickout!

and that means reinstating taxes on wealthy and corporations --

take them back to levels in Ike years!!!

But most of all RE-REGULATE CAPITALISM ...

Unregulated capitalism is merely organized crime!

I want that on a button.

it's a good proposal, considering the abominable mess the state's in.

than losing ones job.

the many new intelligence levels put in place by both Bushes --

Were Carter efforts to increase fuel efficiency bureaucracy?

Is planning and funding infrastructure bureaucracy --

Public services or GOP's "third world America" . . . ???

i.e., the wrong people are losing their jobs --

than losing ones job.

he's going to do this come hell or high water! the attack on state workers is not rational. he's union busting.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(05-28) 16:28 PDT Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to cut state workers' salaries by 5 percent as part of his additional $3 billion worth of spending reductions that are needed to close a widening state budget deficit, his spokesman said today.

The salary reductions will require the Legislature's approval and will save the state about $470 million a year in the state's general fund budget, which is expected to see a $24.3 billion deficit through June 2010, said Aaron McLear, a spokesman for Schwarzenegger.

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I have heard of several major companies who have instituted 5% pay cuts. Sad times we live in.

Fair's fair.

My aunt's hospital just cut all salaries 5% across the board, it was either that or layoffs. My sister's school district just cut 8 paid days off all teachers' salaries, worked out to a 4% pay cut if I remember right. I know a few places that have cut people back to 32 hours a week.

It's better than layoffs as long as it goes all the way to the top, and that includes Arnie.

vets, the elderly, the disabled-they FAIL TO BALANCE THE BUDGET. The simple fact is the areas they are chopping are TOO SMALL to 'balance', & each time they leave us with a LOWER QUALITY OF LIFE. Using this crisis to lock in wholesale prices for medicines, & various medical supplies (like wheelchairs, bandages, braces, etc.)The fact that they SPECIFICALLY DENIED WHOLESALE AS AN OPTION reveals the truth: GOP DOESN'T WANT A MIDDLE CLASS TO EXIST HERE. They feel the middle class is 'stealing THEIR money'-yeah, listen to the Banksters & you'll hear this mega ego sense of entitlements.

Everything right now is borrowed, so don't tell me 'we can't try that/red ink stuff', I know that's THEIR EXCUSE for NOT doing what they should. Look at how Faux Newz was for years in red ink, but their supporters continued to help out for what they believed in........why can't we?

Bullet trains BEGUN in California, electric vehicles with a special lane for suvs & trucks, putting sewage pipes into those power plants that scandinavians have already prototyped, raze those empty McMansions & restart farming-California is the nation's breadbasket-then don't go stupid & cut their water-BUT charge farmers if they grow useless garnishes such as lettuce. Outlaw freshwater for ALL CA golf-courses, rebind school books instead of buying new books each year. I'd read that Texas wastes taxpayers' money $500 million/year on school books-what a waste! Only college-level books would have to update with their quarks, & various clashing string theories, etc.

Inspecting those Chinese containers is already needed, live real-time water analysis available like air quality; quitting that over-priced junk that crumbles in the heat asphalt-replace it with Roman Concrete, city officials may never have to resurface their roads again.

Let the voters decide if County Supervisors should get a raise, same with the House Reps & CA's Senators. I believe the above mentioned persons may suddenly be more concerned about how well their constituents are doing 'in today's economy'.

I feel almost like I just woke up from a coma & it's like 1991 to me. A smoking cratered economy, job creation being nil, deficits as far as the eye can see....

State employees here will likely get 8 days without pay this year and 8 more in 2010.