A couple of months ago, to Los Angeles City Council came up with a plan to deal with their coronavirus financial crisis. They decided to give city employees up to eighty thousand dollars to retire. If enough people took the money, the city could avoid pay cuts for tens of thousands of workers still on the payroll. That was the plan. Well two months later, the Los Angeles City Council is taking another crack at the same problem because they can't
seem to get their financial house in order. This time, they want to give twelve hundred city workers buyouts and start mandatory furloughs for over fifteen thousand more. The furloughed workers would have to take one unpaid day off every two weeks. And here's the problem. Because of the shutdown, LA's tax revenues are weighed down, the cost of doing business is way up. But despite the financial crisis, some
city union workers are balking at unpaid furloughs. They don't buy the idea that they are the ones that ought to take it in the shorts. They want their money on time, no questions asked. Now before anybody pulls out their hankies, to wipe over the plight of the l A City workers, to weep over it. Remember this, millions of Americans have lost jobs and businesses with no buyouts and no furloughs, while the Democrats who insisted on these
shutdowns didn't give a damn. Maybe you should wipe something