Judge rejects Schwarzenegger minimum wage request for state workers

Fire the controller!

talk about divorced from reality.........what was he think'in

Our state workers in Ca. are inept at best. Without competion, these so-called workers, become arrogant and lazy. Their unions are all fighting for the same tax dollar by paying off are elected officials. It takes 10 people to d the job of one peson. Inefficiancy at it's worst. Instead of serving the pubic,all their energy is spent saving their own unecessary, tax-sucking jobs at the expense of the the people who supposedely can't live without them. All I see is endless waste by people creating their own work under the mask of altruism. Let's see how much you really care about your fellow man and take a pay cut. As far as I,m concerned min. wage is too much. I've seen people try harder for less. Good job Arnold, its about time someone had the guts to stand up to these worthless, self-serving unions and the prostitutes they pay. Keep pushing that boot straight up their u-know what's.

You geniouses voted this idiot into office now live with it.. I think Californians should have to take a mental capacity exam before ever being allowed to vote again.
Voted in a steroid using no acting nazi father having can't pronounce the word California egotistical clown as governor and now that the state is like a 3rd world country you want to cry and moan..

Jeffers son wrote:

Our state workers in Ca. are inept at best. Without competion, these so-called workers, become arrogant and lazy. Their unions are all fighting for the same tax dollar by paying off are elected officials. It takes 10 people to d the job of one peson. Inefficiancy at it's worst. Instead of serving the pubic,all their energy is spent saving their own unecessary, tax-sucking jobs at the expense of the the people who supposedely can't live without them. All I see is endless waste by people creating their own work under the mask of altruism. Let's see how much you really care about your fellow man and take a pay cut. As far as I,m concerned min. wage is too much. I've seen people try harder for less. Good job Arnold, its about time someone had the guts to stand up to these worthless, self-serving unions and the prostitutes they pay. Keep pushing that boot straight up their u-know what's.

You Jefferson are probably an incompentent, ineffective a$$ without a job! Misery loves company probably fits you to a tee! Go figure..

Joel wrote:

You geniouses voted this idiot into office now live with it.. I think Californians should have to take a mental capacity exam before ever being allowed to vote again.
Voted in a steroid using no acting nazi father having can't pronounce the word California egotistical clown as governor and now that the state is like a 3rd world country you want to cry and moan..

You are by far the smartest person who has posted on this forum!

absolut crap, they should get min. wage and no more and just be lucky they have a job.

Why does not Schwarzenegger lower the price of gasoline along with wages and pensions? Lowering the price of gasoline and oil, will give Californians more money to pump into the economy and pull the economy out of the recession. It is the high cost of oil that is prolonging the recession, increasing inflation and it is driving businesses away from California, not taxes. For California to remain competitive, Schwarzenegger must lower the cost of energy.

Well, that was the last hope for California. Down the deficit chute we go!

Steroids affect your brain. The time-line is different for everyone. By his own admission he took "roids" and lots of them.

That was the last chance to make a significant spending adjustment. We are now circling the deficit bowl, about to go under for good. The Union Bosses own a dead state.

Remember when the idiot Republicans wanted to change the US Constitution so that this absolutely horrible governor could run for President?

Republicans: the "Knee Jerks" of America.

He worked out so much, the muscles displaced the neurons in his skull.

He made Jesse Ventura look like a genius.

His governmorship should be renamed "Preditor."

Expedient Republicans didn't care if one wasn't a conservative, didn't care if one didn't believe in god, didn't care that one took steroids and drugs, didn't care if one was a woman molester...just find someone who could win for a change. Those are the Republican ethics!!!

Jeffers son wrote:

Our state workers in Ca. are inept at best. Without competion, these so-called workers, become arrogant and lazy. Their unions are all fighting for the same tax dollar by paying off are elected officials. It takes 10 people to d the job of one peson. Inefficiancy at it's worst. Instead of serving the pubic,all their energy is spent saving their own unecessary, tax-sucking jobs at the expense of the the people who supposedely can't live without them. All I see is endless waste by people creating their own work under the mask of altruism. Let's see how much you really care about your fellow man and take a pay cut. As far as I,m concerned min. wage is too much. I've seen people try harder for less. Good job Arnold, its about time someone had the guts to stand up to these worthless, self-serving unions and the prostitutes they pay. Keep pushing that boot straight up their u-know what's.

While there are some State employees who are "inept", how dare you (in all your ignorance) state something you know nothing about.
We (State Workers) do the work private-entity employees refuse to do....and for less!
People like you complain about gangs on the streets and want to lock up the baddies, but complain when your taxes have to pay for the people who keep baddies locked up. People like you complain about having no place to "take your family on vacation" but complain when State Parks increase their fees. You and every other jerk on your side want "safe crops" on their tables, but b**ch when you see State Dept of Agriculture trucks are parked on the side of the road.
Those on your side, want the State to take care of you, but don't want to pay for it. Guess what? That's not how it works!
We (State Workers) have bit the bullet despite the fact that an eff'd up budget is because law makers (some of whom you've voted for!) can't get their acts together.
We're held hostage, because we're convenient.
So....bite me (A STATE WORKER)!

Wrangler wrote:

Well, that was the last hope for California. Down the deficit chute we go!

That was the last chance to make a significant spending adjustment. We are now circling the deficit bowl, about to go under for good. The Union Bosses own a dead state.

If taking money from working families (in most cases over 50%) was the LAST HOPE, then our PAID officials aren't thinking hard enough.

The folks who would be paid minimum wage are ONLY those whose unions hadn't signed anything, yet. NOT those who pandered to an Machiavellian governor who pursues milking the weak and NOT imposing these penalties on staff of polititians.

Get your facts straight, drama-queen!

Wrangler wrote:

That was the last chance to make a significant spending adjustment. We are now circling the deficit bowl, about to go under for good. The Union Bosses own a dead state.

So sad. So true.

I think that people have no clue about what it is like to be a state worker. As evidenced by some of these comments, they have to put up with ignorance on a daily basis. I have had issues with state workers, but haven't we all had problems with people in private business! To clump together a group is the wrong approach. It's short sighted and ignorant.

IF YOU WANT 4 MORE YEARS OF AHNOLD, VOTE FOR WHITMAN.

otherwise vote for jerry. we cant take another 4 years of dumb witted governership from the likes of queen meg

Out of touch wrote:

I think that people have no clue about what it is like to be a state worker. As evidenced by some of these comments, they have to put up with ignorance on a daily basis. I have had issues with state workers, but haven't we all had problems with people in private business! To clump together a group is the wrong approach. It's short sighted and ignorant.

Well put.
Poor customer service, waste, and ineffeciency happens in public and private industry.

a gov't employee rejects a request to reduce gov't employee wages. What a surprise.