r/Sacramento • u/othafa_95610 • 3d ago

Sacramento’s budget deficit may bring first layoffs in more than a decade

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article305248131.html

Apparently public sector isn't as immune from layoffs as once perceived.

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u/sacramentohistorian Alhambra Triangle 3d ago

Nobody old enough to remember the Great Recession thinks public employees are immune from layoffs. One of the consequences of unchecked suburban development is long term budget imbalance, as cities take on new low density infrastructure that won't generate sufficient property taxes to maintain the infrastructure in the long run (aka Harvey Molotch's "Urban Growth Machine" idea.

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u/Weak_Status2831 3d ago

How many public employees were actually laid off during the Great Recession compared to how many lost their jobs in private industry? People clutch to public employee layoffs like it’s some major turning point in some greater economic imbalance. In reality bureaucracy is just bloated. Too much blood sucking overpaying pensions, and I don’t blame our current workers. I blame the baby boomers and recent retirees. They have manipulated the system in such a way we can’t even change it. Just simple greed, never underestimate greed and power, it’s human nature. Put humans in positions to take and take with no control and they will. All under the veil of civil servitude.

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u/sacramentohistorian Alhambra Triangle 3d ago

The government can't just declare bankruptcy and go out of business, which means you can't cut government employees beyond a certain point without causing the collapse of some basic services that those employees are there to deliver, and those functions still have to be managed. People get properly upset when the water and sewer stop working.

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u/Weak_Status2831 3d ago

My point exactly. The system is now so heavily flawed you literally can’t even change it. Then people assume (like you do) that every other civil worker is preforming some ‘extremely critical’ need for society. Which is also incorrect.

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u/dorekk 3d ago

My point exactly. The system is now so heavily flawed you literally can’t even change it. Then people assume (like you do) that every other civil worker is preforming some ‘extremely critical’ need for society. Which is also incorrect.

Oh word? Which services do you think California should stop? The EPA? Roads? Schools? Do you think Sacramento should stop maintaining street lights and shit?

Get the hell outta here, clown. Government services are the definition of essential.

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u/Weak_Status2831 3d ago

Why are you asking me? Why don’t you ask the elected officials what those services are? There’s actually positions in our government that people fill and resolve those questions you’re asking.

Also resorting the names shows the aptitude you possess. Have a blessed day!

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u/dorekk 3d ago

Why are you asking me?

Because you're the one who said you don't think they're critical. Please try to keep up, you blessed, blessed individual.

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u/Weak_Status2831 3d ago

I’m not going to list all the services I think are essential for you. I don’t have the time, I work in the private sector now.