09-27-2009, 10:20 AM
Funny. One would think more folks in the private sector would be able to see that not only is there a connection between the 17 furlough days and how they (or their employees/co-workers) are going to be inconvenienced/impacted....
.....but there is also going to be an absolutely huge/Huge/HUGE trickle-down/domino/avalanche effect here in Hawai'i, when 13,000+ teachers, plus thousands upon thousands of UHPA, HGEA and UPW workers start getting those reduced-by-a-ridiculous-amount paychecks....
(....which between the end of November when they kick in for the teachers at least, and the end of June, when they level off to -7.94%, will be somewhere in the neighborhood of an 11.34% cut).
Lingle, and her henchmen, and a goodly number of the state's hoodwinked taxpayers may be under the impression that millions of dollars are going to be saved by these furloughs...hallelujah!..but so what?...
....in actuality, that's millions upon millions of dollars that hardworking teachers and other service-oriented state workers won't be able to pour back into the private sector. It's people with reasonable paychecks who help keep people who want to stay in business in business!
If you're a shoe salesman, you can count on selling a helluva lot fewer shoes...even fewer than the past year. If you're a restaurant owner, you're going to be selling a helluva lot fewer meals...even fewer than the last year. If you're a contractor, you're going to be building a heckuva lot fewer of whatever the heck it is that you build....even fewer than the last year. And if you just opened your cute little dream business, with hopes of luring some local flush-with-cash customers ....dream on.
Seems to me that badmouthing one's current customers and myriad potential-customers may not be the wisest use of one's time and energies.
----malolo (...madly dashing off letters to ALL of the state's legislators, whether they represent her precise district or not)
.....but there is also going to be an absolutely huge/Huge/HUGE trickle-down/domino/avalanche effect here in Hawai'i, when 13,000+ teachers, plus thousands upon thousands of UHPA, HGEA and UPW workers start getting those reduced-by-a-ridiculous-amount paychecks....
(....which between the end of November when they kick in for the teachers at least, and the end of June, when they level off to -7.94%, will be somewhere in the neighborhood of an 11.34% cut).
Lingle, and her henchmen, and a goodly number of the state's hoodwinked taxpayers may be under the impression that millions of dollars are going to be saved by these furloughs...hallelujah!..but so what?...
....in actuality, that's millions upon millions of dollars that hardworking teachers and other service-oriented state workers won't be able to pour back into the private sector. It's people with reasonable paychecks who help keep people who want to stay in business in business!
If you're a shoe salesman, you can count on selling a helluva lot fewer shoes...even fewer than the past year. If you're a restaurant owner, you're going to be selling a helluva lot fewer meals...even fewer than the last year. If you're a contractor, you're going to be building a heckuva lot fewer of whatever the heck it is that you build....even fewer than the last year. And if you just opened your cute little dream business, with hopes of luring some local flush-with-cash customers ....dream on.
Seems to me that badmouthing one's current customers and myriad potential-customers may not be the wisest use of one's time and energies.
----malolo (...madly dashing off letters to ALL of the state's legislators, whether they represent her precise district or not)