I don’t know what they’ve done with that pinko-commie hippy Governor Jerry Brown or who this guy is that claims to be the current Governor Jerry Brown – maybe he’s just living the Churchill doctrine. In any case, I could not agree more with his evaluation of this piece of California governance:
“The situation reinforces the worst stereotype of ineffective and inefficient government,” Mr. Brown said. He is ordering all state agencies to “immediately investigate the backlog of uncollected debts and find every penny owed to taxpayers.”
The deal is – again, only in California – when state government in 2009 couldn’t pay public workers, they began handing out i.o.u.s. That would be sufficiently unthinkable in most places but at the same time the state started handing out interest free loans in the form of salary and travel advances.
· Nobody knew. Government saw no reason to make a public statement.
· Where was our fourth estate?
· Nobody has explained yet how government might become legally unable to spend additional money – we all know about government shut-down – but then whence comes the authority to loan money?
· And then we have the only-in-California cherry on top: the state never tried to get the loans repaid.
These clowns make Greece look good.
California Is Owed Millions of Dollars by State Employees by Jennifer Medina NYT, April 21, 2011
The Churchill doctrine: Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
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