Saturday, August 1, 2009

Fire them, $ave BILLION$

95,000 employees of the State of California are ready to strike. They want to force the State to sign their new employment contract (I'm sure it includes all kinds of lovely pay raises, guarantees and benefits, too). They also don't like their pay being cut by 15% while they're furloughed three days a month. Let's see if I understand this right:

1. 95,000 people who still have their jobs
2. and can't really be fired, ever,
3. ...want to go on strike to force the State to sign something,
4. and they want more pay,
5. while their countrymen are losing their shirts, jobs, families and everything else.
6. The whole time, they get raises every year.

Remember, no one screams when State employees get pay raises, big benefits, and can't really be fired. Try installing that kind of setup at insurance companies, hedge funds or investment banks. It'll be on the front page of Time Magazine with a one-line header, "DEVIL" (next to a glorious picture of the Obamas headlined, "ANGELS").

AGAIN... they have jobs... and raises... and their compatriots in the DMV can't get drivers license photos right.

Please, Arnold, fire them all. Yep, put 95,000 people on the streets and invite everyone who's lost their jobs in the (ultimately superior) private sector to apply to replace them. Then the 95,000 losers can learn how to write their own resumes. And they can learn to do quality work with the actual possibility of losing their jobs for poor performance. Or they can try being entrepreneurs.

95,000 losers. Oops, I apologize. 72% of them voted for the strike. That's about.. 68,000 losers. I'll bet they end up joining the fake homeless people asking for free money on the side of the road, instead of getting real jobs.

Also: please, EXECUTE MUMIA NOW so we can make more room in jail for the 68,000 losers.

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