http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-bell-hefty-salaries,0,3545022.story so fucked. that city is in the hood. and people complain about corporate CEOs.....
City is 91% Latino....54% of them being "foreign born".....4% of residents over 25 have a college degree....65% of the residents don't even have a high school diploma.......
Average income is $27K. All the officials are being investigated by the D.A. should be interesting to see what they find.
A couple of weeks ago I posted that Republicans would get further if they'd try to cut government spending not by cutting programs, but by cutting salaries. I included a link dated that day to a NY Times article finding (I forgot which) dozens or hundreds of salaries over $200K among NYC port employees. (Port authority = docks, airports, train stations, subways, ferries, etc.) A few were $500K or higher. You could cut 10% across the board for all government salaries and you'd still have lines of applicants for the jobs, because of the job security and the pensions. That would wipe out the federal deficit without cutting programs.
Ban public employee unions. It's ridiculous that organizations can actively work for and promote a candidate that can later decide on their pay and benefits.
Even though I'm quite liberal, I'd have no problem at all with an across-the-board 15% salary cut of every federal employee making over $50k (perhaps set the threshold higher in the major cities). If Republicans would run on this idea, I think they'd find a lot of traction across the spectrum.
And people wonder why California is fucked? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...stpaid-retiree-in-states-pension-system-.html
That cut would be for the conservative side of government as well as social services. It would cover military, police, and intelligence. It would fit more with Democrats because it's mostly against the upper middle class. Whichever party grabs the new policy first will get many crossover votes from the other pary. But they will also lose the votes of government employees. In most small towns in the Northwest, government employees are the ruling class, not just in power, but in salaries and job security. They are considered the best jobs in town. Whenever I read that government has to pay so much to keep up with private industry, I laugh. When I read some famous person saying that police or teachers are heroes because they're underpaid, I know this person is rich and naive. When Reagan started all this speechmaking about cutting government, I always thought he and his Republican successors were cowards for not losing votes by stating the obvious--salaries must be cut.
Post #15, but the whole thread is relevant. http://sportstwo.com/threads/163356-The-Governator-is-Hardcore!
Dude was making $1.5 million a year. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...d-disgusted-that-rizzo-earned-15-million.html 28 weeks of vacation per year. haha.
Let me get this straight. Two city council members claim they had no idea how much the city manager--much less any other city official--was making? First, I wonder how much those city council people were making themselves. Second, what the hell were they being paid for if not to oversee the local government?
Reminds me of why I always thought coaching salaries in the professional sports leagues were insane. EVERYONE WANTS THOSE FUCKING JOBS. Who doesn't want to be a city manager? I do, and I sure as shit don't need no 1.5 million to do it. Would be nice though, suckers.
He may have become reviled in working-class Bell for his nearly $800,000-a-year salary, but Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo could have the last laugh. Should he be forced from his job, he would immediately gain a new title: highest-paid retiree in the state’s CalPERS retirement system. Rizzo, 55, would be entitled to at least $600,000-a-year pension for the rest of his life, according to retirement calculations made by The Times that were reviewed by pensions experts. That would make him the highest-paid retiree in the CalPERS system, outstripping the $509,664 paid each year to Bruce Malkenhorst, former city manager of Vernon. Rizzo. Hmmm...that name sounds familiar. Oh yeah: [video=youtube;c412hqucHKw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c412hqucHKw[/video]
