Senate pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) had a press event last week to argue the Governor’s furlough of state workers is not saving as much as advertised. A huge number of state workers live in his district. Steinberg and a group from UC Berkeley gave compelling arguments. If they and others are successful in convincing the public and the Governor that the furloughs are not producing enough savings, the Governor’s only viable alternative is to exercise his executive power to unilaterally layoff tens of thousands of state workers with a single stroke of his pen.
October 19th, 2009 at 12:00 am
With the next two budgets we will see more pruning due to the exit of high income earners from California, lower capital gains from investments and out of business signs of many under capitalized small businesses.
The unions may have to eat their own……it is not going to be pretty.