You Don’t Always Get What You Pay For
Read Frusta’s post NJ Taxes, and tomorrow's school budget vote for a good roundup of the financial issues facing New Jersey’s taxpayers, along with reactions and suggestions for taming the state’s budget.
One of the best suggestions to date is from a New Jersey state employee:
One of the best suggestions to date is from a New Jersey state employee:
‘I constantly see my coworkers doing things I've never seen in private industry: sleeping at their desks, refusing to do any work, going grocery shopping during work hours, drinking beer, leaving work at noon, spending half the day on the phone conducting personal business or (worse) running a private business. The best thing to do is get rid of the union. But since that's not going to happen, fire one out of every three state employees."That’s not going to happen either, but it would be a step in the right direction. While the private sector has improved worker productivity, the state has being going in the opposite direction, doing less with more. With a state workforce of 154,700 and our local governments employing 401,000, is there any doubt who works for who?
Posted by Enlighten-NewJersey @ 8:45 PM
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You know it's interesting but if you look at the democrats who oppose Corzine's budget proposal you'll probably find that the majority of them are from the southern half of the state. Why is that?
With $2.6 billion dollars in spending increases and no changes in the way money is distributed throughout the state, all of the money continues to go to North Jersey, primarily Hudson, Essex and Passiac Counties who have the overwhelming majority of poverty stricken urban municipalities. Outside of Camden, the rest of South Jersey is pretty much thrown to the wolves.
The dilema for Corzine was that he couldn't please everybody so he had to choose which half of the state was more important to him. The taxpayers in the South or the tax receivers and party bosses in the North who got him elected to office. As a result he put together a budget that made some insignificant spending cuts for the sole purpose of saying he made spending cuts but continues to reward the the Sacco's the Stack's the Sires's and the James's in the North with money to roll around in like pigs in slop.
South Jersey Democrats want nothing to do with a budget that gives themselves the short end of the stick. This could seriously hurt Menendez in November....hopefully
It's a scary time for teachers everywhere. I should know, I'm one of them.:(
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