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Originally Posted by SapphireSphinx9
re: the $20 million settlement... Please don't get me wrong, I feel really bad for the situation she and her daughters were in... But As a resident of the state of California, I did nothing wrong, it's not my fault that these Parole Officers didn't do their jobs... So why in the heck do I have to pay for it??
re: the Govenator making the state employees work for minimum wage - our State Controller has appealed it, and will not be abiding by this "order" from Arnold, he will pay everyone at their same pay level (at least that's the last that I heard of it on the news last night). Once again, it's none of these 200k employees fault that the government isn't doing their job, and not getting the budget passed on time!
But that's just my 2 cents on it all.
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You elect the officials who make the laws and hire the people who run the state and the system failed in this case, not just a few guys. That's why you get to pay for it. My city just settled a lawsuit, I wasn't the one who hired the guys who hung a noose in front of a co-worker's office as a "joke." But my taxes pay for it just the same.
It'll be interesting to see what happens with the pay thing. I don't agree with it per se, but the automatic "we can' pay anyone" thing that happens in Illinois was incredibly effective at getting a budget passed. I think CA's biggest issue is the referendum -> law policy that creates unfunded mandates. Ok maybe not biggest, but one OF the biggest.