Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Beck" <ersatzdog at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 11:52:53 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Blame deficits on government employees - New database shows $12.2 billion in Bay Area public employee salaries - ContraCostaTimes.com
A similar thing is happening in Texas, which faces a $15 billion deficit (biennial). Someone has found out that a few state employees are making--gasp!--more than $150,000. All these salaries make up well less than 1% of the total deficit, but that doesn't cool the outrage. Of course the net effect of this populist lather is that instead of talking about Texas' insanely regressive tax structure that makes revenue-raising almost impossible, state employees, mostly the ones making well under $150,000, will be in for freezes, cuts, and firings.
But the populist spectacle, one that unites tea partiers and liberals, will win out and Texas' budget will be balanced by workers and the poor.
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> "A hospital administrator in Alameda County, a deputy police chief in San
> Francisco and a physician in Santa Clara County grossed more than $500,000
> each in pay last year — the top three 2009 salaries in a database containing
> 200,000 public employees now available online."
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