…that we’re not going to expand the police department for a bit:
Council committees recommend LAPD hiring freeze
Members of the budget and public safety panels agree to discontinue a new recruit class and halt police recruiting efforts.Two committees of the Los Angeles City Council recommended Monday that the city stop hiring police officers starting next month and wait until January to see if the budget picture has improved enough to resume recruitment.
The good news is that there’s plenty of cash for the incompetents at the top:
Outgoing DWP chief Nahai would keep full salary as consultant under proposal
Officials at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials plan to give a consulting contract to the outgoing general manager of the power agency that would pay him the same salary he was earning as the DWP’s top executive.
…I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue.
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What’s shocking is how up in arms the statists are about belt tightening during a recession. This attitude of constant higher than inflation growth of government at all levels at all times is a huge problem.
I don’t know many people that got raises in the private sector this year- MANY people ended up with lower salaries. In the public sector you threaten to trim the rate of growth and people freak out. Maybe we should index the rate of salary in government jobs to the gdp.
It’s been awhile since I took Macroeconomics but doesn’t GDP also include the amount of government spending? In which case, if we have a further explosion in government spending it would register as an increase in GDP which lead to higher salaries for those in government. Rinse and repeat.