In the latest sign of their increasingly desperate financial situation, the Seattle Times instructed about 500 managers and non-unionized employees to take one week unpaid leave by February 28. The Times would not reveal the amount of money it expected to save by the mandatory action, only that it needed to achieve cost savings early in the coming year.
Scary time to be in the news biz.
Der Governator in Kalifornia vill be layingk off staats verkers a couple days per month, too. Jehts ist der ofen auf!
slingshot,
I know being a lefty memory cells are in short supply but CA Union leaders and Donkey chanted “sweep, sweep” at their Sacramento victory party in 2005 celebrating their now pyrrhic victory opposing the governator.
Visit California’s Department of Finance Web site. California’s annual state spending has grown from $78 billion in fiscal 2004 to $103 billion in fiscal 2009.
Why? Puddy Remembers the brouhaha on this blog over Schwarzenegger’s four 2005 initiatives and how HA Donkey cheered when they lost now look at the state. Can’t blame all this on Ahhhhhhhhrnold.
Proposition 73, was the governator’s proposal to restrict political spending by public employee unions, died.
Proposition 74, was the governator’s proposal to make teachers work longer to achieve tenure, died.
Proposition 76 was the governator’s main proposal to slow the growth of state spending. It died.
Proposition 77, was the governator’s proposal to redraw legislative and congressional districts, was died.
Remember Puddy placed on this blog how the rich Donkey are leaving California due to the Donkey legislature raising taxes over and over and over. Many HA leftists pooh-poohed it but couldn’t find anything to refute it.
Now you see what happens when Donkey take over and lobby on TV and run the state overriding common sense proposals.
Go fuck yer goat, puddy.
Yea, right, sure, what ever you say. Politicians with an R get a pass. Those with a D are at fault. It’s a linear, simple formula to memorize and recall when weighing complex issues becomes too challenging and tedious.
@2 Puddy
Riddle me this, is S’negger a repub? Would YOU vote for him?
Again help me understand why it matters what Puddy or any other right wing idiot thinks??? They lost. They were beaten like a drum on Nov 4. Their candidates got bent over. They got bent over.
Puddy and the other right wing idiots who post here are part of a very, very small minority of Americans who have been bent over and fucked very, very hard in the ass.
Each and every single opinion, thought, position or idea they have has been R E J E C T E D! The Democrats destroyed the republicans in almost every meaningful race on Nov 4.
Candidates on the right, their platforms and all they stand for have been ridiculed. They are fools, idiots and ingrates.
Their opinions don’t count. They don’t count. We fucked them in the ass on Nov 4. Their role in life now is to simply bend over when told.
ByeByeGOP–
You continue to believe the Atheist Progressive nutcases like yourself “won” something in November.
Obama USED you idiots…you know, like Lenin’s Useful Idiots?
You are part of Obama’s USEFUL IDIOTS.
Your denial is humorous.
Poor Stupes. So stupid he can’t see what Aaaahnnold should have done: what Warren Buffet advised him to do.
Can Proposition 13. Unwind from that unmitigated disaster for that State and then Ahhhnold could have lowered sales taxes and avoided any other extra tax on the rich people Stupes worships likes a slavish fool.
Instead Ahhhhnold tried to be a wingnut’s wingnut with those 4 garbage initiatives and FAILED MISERABLY.
I bet they’ll save around $500,000.
“managers and non-unionized employees”
Hmmm … what’s the ratio of managers to workers? 5 managers and 495 workers? In any case, maybe these non-union employees are rethinking the benefits of unions right about now ….
“Obama USED you idiots…you know, like Lenin’s Useful Idiots?
You are part of Obama’s USEFUL IDIOTS.
Your denial is humorous.”
From the folks who brought you W via Ronald Reagan. And who would surely have voted for W again in ’08 had he been allowed to run.