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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California has moved to end a budget crisis by sacking 22,000 state workers and ordering pay cuts for 200,000.
The most populous state in the US faces a budget deficit of more than $15bn (£7.6bn), and legislators are struggling to agree a spending plan.
The cuts, which will save $100m a month, are designed to put pressure on politicians to end the budget crisis.
"If that's what it takes. I'm here to make sure that our state functions, and whatever it takes, I will do it."
Originally posted by dunwichwitch
... why not skim the fat off of the fat cats?
" I didn't think about money. I thought about the fame, about just being the greatest. I was dreaming about being some dictator of a country or some savior like Jesus . . ."
Originally posted by absente
Terminator's (Arnold Schwarzenegger's) comment is a little bit .. well:
Originally posted by Dan Tanna
" I didn't think about money. I thought about the fame, about just being the greatest. I was dreaming about being some dictator of a country or some savior like Jesus . . ."
Thats what he said.
Arnie link
The guys a bloody danger to you all, and the world. We need a time travelling terminator to come unstick him from his grubby plans.
Originally posted by Bhadhidar
When Arnie (my "boss", by the way) became the Governor of California, he said that he would "blow up the boxes" that represented what he believed was the bureaucracy that burdens the State.
Well, he just might have blown up the box Pandora regreted opening so long ago.
If a budget is not passed very soon, Schwarznegger may be remembered for having single-handedly done what no earthquake, fire, flood, or war has ever done...
Bring the Great State of California to its knees in a Dead Stop!
The state employees, at $6.55 @ hour, LESS than the State's mandated minimum wage, now have even less to keep them from striking, en mass: bringing the operations of the State to a screaching halt.
And THAT action, if incited, would be felt across the entire nation.