Comments on: Brown wants top 10 list of actions to cut waste http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/02/16/brown-wants-top-10-list-of-actions-to-cut-waste/ Politics in the Bay Area and beyond Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:58:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: rew http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/02/16/brown-wants-top-10-list-of-actions-to-cut-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-28010 rew Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:52:21 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=15217#comment-28010 Dan Walters reported yesterday California spends 11% of budget on Corrections, but the national average is 7.2%. The Corrections department has bloat beyond belief, average pay for correctional guards is $100,000 with overtime, plus bloated pensions and free health care for life. Two billion being spent on inmate health care, inmates have health plan like state workers, free health, free dental, free vision, while 1/3 of states workers have no health care at all – employers would go bankrupt paying premiums. I’m not voting for Browns tax hike so he can continue this policy of over funding prisons at the expense of higher education, city goverment, county, and what not. Our state should be known for it’s great colleges and univeristies, not our prisons.

]]> By: Elwood http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/02/16/brown-wants-top-10-list-of-actions-to-cut-waste/comment-page-1/#comment-27963 Elwood Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:00:36 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=15217#comment-27963 #1:

Part-time legislature meets every two years.

Reduces need for staff, automobiles and hundreds of unnecessary bills.

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