re: #433 Obdicut

I’m asking you to back up your claim that half of the budget goes to SEIU employees. Can you do that?

I am well aware of the problems with the unionized employees— a lot of them are because we skated for a long time with unfunded pensions, et al.

However, they are a symptom, and not a cause. They are a symptom of the incredibly screwed state of California politics.

That’s not what I said. What I said was they doubled their spending in 10 years and half of that money went to state employees….unions. That isn’t a symptom, it’s a cause. CA is in a hole of their own making because they spent money they didn’t have. If anyone wants to know what the rest of this country is going to look like financially in 10 years all they have to do is look at CA.