Gov Jerry Brown to dump dozens of Community Redevelopment Agencies each with 250k Heads and six 75k Secretaries.
About time. Next he should merge 5,000 Fire Departments into 500, 5,000 Police Departments into 500, etc. Shut down City Hall and merge them into counties.
That will save $billions.
Moon Beam is back in charge !
Congress should do the same at the Federal level by closing the Post Office, VA Hospitals, ...
Back in the day it took one cop to handle a traffic accident. Now they send the EMS, fire dept, city cop, county deputy, and the drug sniffing dog for every little fender bender. This may create "jobs" but they are not producing anything and are at the taxpayers expense. Of course we need all of these people, we just don't need the 4 or 5 times the amount of them there now are.
I feel bad when any person gets killed but why do we taxpayers have to pay for 1,000 cops/firemen to fly from all over the USA, stay a few days in 5 star hotels to attend the funeral for cops/firemen.
We have to pay for 1,000 local cops/firemen to drive their cars, motorcycles, helicopters, etc. from hundreds of miles around to attend the funeral. Then they clog up the freeways and streets during rush hour and tie up traffic, ruin business for local merchants, etc.
This has gone to far.
If you have a high risk job and get killed don't burden the taxpayers with unnecessary expenses and drag us through the whole damn funeral with y'all. Nobody held a gun to your head and made you join the FD or PD so you can't say you didn't join on your own.
GM is profitable after bankruptcy allowed GM to cancel UAW pensions and shed employment contracts. GM modernized their workforce and is now a public and profitable company. Seems there is no other choice than for Jerry Brown to file for bankruptcy.
If Brown can clean up California's mess, he should be made president by acclamation.
Private Industry knows how to streamline and modernize. We continuously have to do it to keep our jobs. Every level of government now must do the same. They need guys from the private sector to help them.
Moon beam is too old. He is past 100 already.
is brown the governor again?
Yes.
sick of bureacrapy wrote:
If Brown can clean up California's mess, he should be made president by acclamation.
So far he seems to be doing a great job. The entrenched interests are fighting him tooth and nail, and that includes power-hungry politicians trying to use RDA funds as their piggybank. Already, it has become necessary for the State Controller to begin audits of Redevelopment Agencies to verify that funds are being spent legally: Local governments are trying to transfer funds out to avoid giving roughly $2 billion to the state.
But nobody can say that Jerry isn't trying as hard as he can to but California's balance sheet back in balance.
State Bankruptcy wrote:
GM is profitable after bankruptcy allowed GM to cancel UAW pensions and shed employment contracts. GM modernized their workforce and is now a public and profitable company. Seems there is no other choice than for Jerry Brown to file for bankruptcy.
GM couldn't raise taxes.
States, unlike cities, cannot go bankrupt.
Tea Party House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is blocking federal legislation that would enable states to file for bankruptcy. That is a grave mistake for the future of the United States.
Cantor and the Tea Party are obstructing common sense management measures which we all know have to be done in these critical times.
GM couldn't raise taxes.
In a few months, California voters will vote on whether to continue tax increases or whether to roll back taxes to lower rates. If voters vote NO, which I expect, Gov Brown will have to cut secondary education further. He may have to default on State of California Municipal Bonds which will crash the Wall Street Municipal Bond Market. This is my Cantor, the GOP, and Tea Party must allow California to file for bankruptcy and escape pension obligations and labor contracts. Failure to allow Brown to bankrupt California may trigger a 20 year world wide depression.