That's $4,000 per person. Does California not pay its workers a little bit more than 4,000 apiece? There is a calculator function on your PC under Accessories if you want to check the math. If you mean it would save $40,000 per worker (still a low estimate when you consider benefits and pension), it becomes $1.6 billion per year.
As for reducing services "dramatically", you would merely be getting by with 10,000 more workers than you had in 1998. Doesn't strike me as all that dramatic.
If I have $20,000 and somebody hands me $15,000 and then takes away $14,000, should I cue the violins because I "lost" a dramatic amount of money, or should I be happy that I ended up $1,000 ahead of where I started? |
