Ça donne un regard intéressant sur qui sont les prédateurs... Et si la ploutocratie n'a rien d'autre à offrir que "moins d'impôts pour les riches", visiblement ceux d'en face ne valent guère mieux. C'est juste la clientèle qui change...
Je ne vous mets pas tout. Le blog de Mish relève souvent ce genre de situations. Mais visiblement, les collectivités locales aux USA sont gérées n'importe comment et les fonctionnaires territoriaux jouissent d'avantages acquis payés par les impôts locaux absolument grotesques... Alors que les services sont fermés les uns après les autres, c'est la guerre des prédateurs pour s'accrocher à leur "acquis social" et surtout pour garantir les pensions des vieux, et ce quoi qu'il en coûte pour les jeunes (des fois qu'il y aie encore de jeunes naïfs qui croient qu'il y a une solidarité inter générationnelle
). Vous saupoudrez en plus quelques doses d' "union" là dessus et ça tourne carrément au burlesque...Alors je ne vois ça que par ce que veut bien en dire Mike Shedlock. Et peut être que j'ai un regard pas très objectif sur la question du coup. Mais il a tout de même les sources avec lui (et pas des moindres).
Je vous laisse apprécier :
La ville de Newark, la banlieue de New York, passe en mode survie :
| Emergency Press Conference on Newark Budget Gap; Massive Service Cuts; No Toilet Paper for City Offices; Newark is Bankrupt |
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis, Mike Shedlock, 22/07/2010 (traduire en Français  )
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| http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/07/emergency-press-conference-on-newark.html |
CNN : "Every single contract that does not go to the core function of our city in providing safe streets, providing fire protection, or other things to keep our city afloat will now be cut," Booker said during an emergency press conference Wednesday.
The reductions include not buying toilet paper for city offices, cutting the work week to four days for non-uniformed city workers, which is equivalent to a 20% pay cut, scrapping city holiday decorations, and closing city pools. These extreme measures, most of which will take effect beginning in August, are expected to save the city between $10 million and $15 million.
Mish : The mayor and the city council are both to blame. Once again the culprit should be easy to spot: union contracts and pension benefits.
Public unions in conjunction with corrupt politicians have bankrupted Newark. There is simply no other way of looking at this. The city's best option is to declare bankruptcy, placing pension benefits and salaries in a court of law rather than on the backs of over-burdened taxpayers.
Mish : Newark is bankrupt and public unions did it. The only sensible solution for Newark is to declare bankruptcy, dissolve the unions and their pension plans, and start all over with non-union employees for government services.
Une petite ville pauvre près de Los Angeles paye des salaires et des pensions de 600 000$ à 800 000$ à sa petite mafia de politiques locaux :
| Bell California Emails Gone Viral; Citizens Protest $800K Salaries; City Manager Resigns; Can Anything be done about $600,000 Public Pensions? |
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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis, Mike Shedlock, 23/07/2010 (traduire en Français )
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| http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/07/bellbell-california-emails-gone-viral.html |
Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city’s manager earns an annual salary of almost $800,000.
It was the first council meeting since the Los Angeles Times reported July 15 that Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo earns $787,637 -- with annual 12 percent raises -- and that Bell pays its police chief $457,000, more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck makes in a city of 3.8 million people. Bell council members earn almost $100,000 for part-time work.
The officials include Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo, who earns $787,637 a year — nearly twice the pay of President Barack Obama — for overseeing one of the poorest towns in Los Angeles County.
Ou encore, dans le très sérieux (et plutôt démocrate) New York Times, on dirait bien que les prédateurs ont tué leur poule aux oeufs d'or :
| A City Outsources Everything. Sky Doesn’t Fall. |
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New York Times, 23/07/2010 (traduire en Français )
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| http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/business/20maywood.html?_r=1 |
The school crossing guards were let go. Parking enforcement was contracted out, City Hall workers dismissed, street maintenance workers made redundant. The public safety duties of the Police Department were handed over to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
A report by the state attorney general last year concluded the culture of the department “is one permeated with sexual innuendo, harassment, vulgarity, discourtesy to members of the public as well as among officers, and a lack of cultural, racial and ethnic sensitivity and respect.”
| Cities Rent Police, Janitors to Save Cash |
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Wall Street Journal, Tamara Audi, 23/07/2010 (traduire en Français )
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| http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704334604575339153865582376.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read |
Faced with a $118 million budget deficit, the city of San Jose, Calif., recently decided it could no longer afford its own janitors. So the city's budget called for dropping its custodial staff and hiring outside contractors to clean its city hall and airport, saving about $4 million.
Cities say they have little choice. Municipalities across the U.S. will face a projected shortfall of $56 to $86 billion between 2010 and 2012, according to a report from the National League of Cities.
Glendale has faced an $8 million shortfall on a $170 million annual budget for the last three years, said city manager Jim Starbird, and has already cut police and fire personnel.
"We have to find ways to reduce the costs of services we provide," he said. "We can't just keep cutting services."
Roumanification... Les hyènes vont pouvoir commencer le combat pour se disputer les restes...
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