Schwarzenegger orders big payroll cuts

updated 2 hours, 16 minutes ago

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday ordered a state hiring freeze and payroll cuts to conserve cash as California struggles to deal with a $42 billion budget deficit.

The governor issued an executive order that requires state agencies to reduce payroll by 10 percent, which could lead to massive layoffs. He also ordered the state's 235,000 employees to take two days off a month without pay, starting Feb. 1.

Schwarzenegger also issued an executive order calling lawmakers back into session to deal with the budget for the third time in two months. On Thursday he announced he would veto an $18 billion Democratic deficit-cutting package that he said didn't do enough to address the financial crisis.
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I'm sorry to all of the Democrats reading this but I'd have to say Arnold is doing exactly what he should be doing...governing and governing with a big stick.
It sure sounds like he is trying to do what ever he can to make things right out there in the west.

Anyone know if California is getting any of the aid package?? I haven't been able to find anything on that.

His Goovenatorship is going to have to do much more than that if he's going to fix the budget woes of that state. Much of it is not going to be politicaly correct either. 20 billion of that shortfall is from the hospitals. 12 of it is for free care given to illegal immagrants by law. The only way to assess the real issue is to start removing the cause. Just cutting the purse strings of paying tax payers is not the way to go about fixing the budget. This budget problem is nationwide, but our hospitals shutting down major services because so many non-paying illegals is the downfall of our states and the beginning of governmental rationing of our health care systems! NWO thinkers say this is planned. It might be but it still must be addressed by those of us who are willing to state the true nature of the problem!
Zindo

Wonderful, gotta love america...Illegal immigrants get a free ride, casue more crimes than the average american, marry ana merican to gain residency, but being an american myself, no money or insurnace i get booted out the door... the system needs to be redesigned..

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Hey Bud, good evening!!

I did not know these facts.

Thank you for the info!

I'm going to have to check this out in more detail.

Originally posted by ziggy1706
marry ana merican to gain residency

I agree the borders need to be closed enough is enough.
Consiledation and put everybody to work!
By the way who is ana merican? Is she a politician?

I wonder if arnie will get a pay cut? Na, jk; I don't.
I agree that if America stopped funding the illegal immigrants, there would a huge ease on the Americans in almost every way.
please take about 10 minutes and watch this video:
Immigration Gumballs
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Originally posted by AmericanDaughter
I wonder if arnie will get a pay cut? Na, jk; I don't.
I agree that if America stopped funding the illegal immigrants, there would a huge ease on the Americans in almost every way.
please take about 10 minutes and watch this video:
Immigration Gumballs
www.youtube.com...
free faxes and More:
www.numbersusa.com

California has a myriad of problems. Arnold is on the right track fiscally. But he probably won't get much help from the liberal Assembly and Senate. They've never met a social program that they didn't like, no matter the economic situation.

As far as Arnold having a pay cut...he's never taken any Governors salary ($175K). It's been going to charity since he was elected.

Stupid. Stupid . STUPID!!!

The state employee pay period is aproximately 28 days per month.

2 days per month unpaid furlough X 12 months per year = 24 days per year unpaid.


That's almost one month's pay per employee, multiplied by over 200,000 employees.

Governor "Squattin'-doofus" might cut the state's payroll cost by a few hundred million, while the furlough is in effect (aproximately 18 months); but he'll be doing so at the cost of the State's economic health. What little the is left of it!


Those 200 thousand people won't be able to pay their bills, won't be able to buy enough food to feed thier families, won't be able to buy the manufactured goods that the rest of you make and sell to earn Your daily bread for the sake of Your families!


And many of them have mortgages that won't be paid, that means more forclosures in a state where the forclosure rate is already one of the highest in the nation.

How's that going to help the state's economy? Or the Nation's?



This is really a stupid ploy; an ill-conceived grandstand act by a third rate actor as a fourth rate politician.

To a large extent, this is just following industry standards. Right now, companies across the globe are implementing exactly these measures. Whether or not "The Oak" instigated these measures, the effect is to try and treat the California balance sheet just as if it were a business and try to make it effective. I don't necessarily agree with the policies but I understand them.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's record speaks for itself, he has shown a life-long commitment to helping others and so I wouldn't hold this against him per se. When the plane is going down on just 2 engines then you need to lighten the load, even if that means throwing the very things that helped you survive before out of the windows.

Whether it is government employees that are being laid off, or those from public/private industry, the effect is the same for those being laid off because the job market is also drying up ever more rapidly.

Yet again, human lives are being sacrificed at the alter of money presided over by the banks. Nothing has actually changed in terms of understanding the culture that promotes this kind of debt accrual and social inequality. It is almost 2009 and we still cannot get over the basic issue of greed.

Mind you, we can't get over any of the other issues of the inadequacy of social engineering so it is hardly surprising.

The unfortunate fact is that capitalism requires inequality. That is not an indictment against it, more, a fact that should be recognised so that the effects can be minimised. Those effects have been left to rot and fester for too many years so the scalpel is out because some cutting is necessary.

The fundamental question is, do we change the way things are done now - as we slide into world crisis, or do we make the changes when everything is going good and we can hardly remember that things used to be rough?

We're like the farm cows in a pen. We get so distracted by the little button that feeds us food pellets every time we shove it with our noses that we forget that we're caged, prisoners of a fiscal system that only works the minority of the time.

Ahh well, time for another pellet I reckon...

He donates his salery! Well WoW! That's news to me! Good for him and I wonder if he's the only one that does that?
Maybe he would donate to the payroll situation this time but that shouldn't be expected of anyone and is none of our business.
I still don't think he's doing a good job for the people that hired him.