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10-05-2005, 02:31 PM
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| | | Redundancy
I just heard on the radio that New Orleans has sacked half of its workers because they have run out of cash. Does anyone know if this is true ? If so, what do you think ? |
10-05-2005, 03:32 PM
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| | The story from BBC.
Well, it's not much to think imo, quite natural the tax revenues drop after this kind of event. To bad they don't get federal funding.
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10-05-2005, 03:39 PM
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| | | I suppose I assumed they would get funding from central government because they would need all the people they could get to rebuild. It obviously doesn't work that way |
10-05-2005, 04:06 PM
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| | | I heard a clip of the mayor saying that the hope was that federal funds would cover the lack of revenue, but apparently the only thing that the funds can be used for is overtime pay. Oh irony of ironies.
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10-05-2005, 04:10 PM
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| | So you can have half the people work twice the hours  What's the point of that ? |
10-05-2005, 05:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Fiona So you can have half the people work twice the hours What's the point of that ? | It's a loophole. The purpose was actually to keep the state from drawing on federal funds. Welcome to the Neo-Con Zone, where we give back money to taxpayers, claiming we don't need it to win their future votes, and in turn kill the funds that used to be distributed to individual states for a variety of important services.
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