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From the Sacramento Bee, here are a few Arnold quotes. Amazing with just days left in his Administration he is trying to show leadership, as the lamest of ducks, this pathetic and funny, not to be taken seriously--though he is correct.
"On school functions: "Why do we have it that a civil servant has to perform any service in the schools? A school is not allowed to contract out and call the local landscaper and say, 'Mow my lawn.' No, it is to be a civil servant. So therefore we have an extra $500 million a year of expenditure because it has to be a civil servant rather than some local one that you contract out for fixing the roof or fixing the pipes or fixing the plumbing or fixing the bathroom or mowing your lawn."
On court security: "It's done by the sheriffs. Now I don't have anything against sheriffs, but I think there's a more competitive way of going and bid it out. And you will see all of a sudden we will save hundreds of millions of dollars on keeping our court buildings safe if it is a competitive process rather than having a locked in system where the sheriffs get this money."
On pension costs: "All of a sudden you have to take money away from prisons, all of a sudden you have to take money away from higher education, from child care, from In-Home Supportive Services. From all of those programs that are very important, they are being robbed blind by the pensions of public employees."
Does Susan Kennedy know he said these things? Or does it matter any more--who is listening, other than staff?
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"On school functions: "Why do we have it that a civil servant has to perform any service in the schools? A school is not allowed to contract out and call the local landscaper and say, 'Mow my lawn.' No, it is to be a civil servant. So therefore we have an extra $500 million a year of expenditure because it has to be a civil servant rather than some local one that you contract out for fixing the roof or fixing the pipes or fixing the plumbing or fixing the bathroom or mowing your lawn."
On court security: "It's done by the sheriffs. Now I don't have anything against sheriffs, but I think there's a more competitive way of going and bid it out. And you will see all of a sudden we will save hundreds of millions of dollars on keeping our court buildings safe if it is a competitive process rather than having a locked in system where the sheriffs get this money."
On pension costs: "All of a sudden you have to take money away from prisons, all of a sudden you have to take money away from higher education, from child care, from In-Home Supportive Services. From all of those programs that are very important, they are being robbed blind by the pensions of public employees."
Does Susan Kennedy know he said these things? Or does it matter any more--who is listening, other than staff?
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