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This was one of the last acts of the Jon Corzine administration. It has a drop-down list of state expenditures by category (example: salaries) and produces a report. You can even export it out as a PDF.
Imagine that, the most corrupt state in the entire universe has a "transparency" website that was set up under the most corrupt governor ever in the universe for all time, past and future. I guess those crooks in Trenton have cooked up a website to spread more lies.
Before anyone goes ripping into state workers let me give you some real statisics. Only 4.1 billion, or 14% of state budget goes for the cost of wages AND benefits. They could layoff the entire workforce twice, and it would not close the budge gap. A huge % of the workforce is paid for through fees and there are little to no savings to laying them off (Motor Vehicles, banking and insurace, board of public utilities, etc). The recent give-backs the state workers have given back, which includes loss of raises, furloughs, increase in pension and benefit fees for workers to pay - have saved the state MILLIONS of Dollars and have COST state workers an average of $10,000 per worker. State workers are not whining over it. We just feel that we have given a lot back, and yet we still get bashed by the media and others who do not understand. We work for a lower salary than that in private industry. We pay taxes and help contribute to the NJ economy. Did you know that if the state laid off 1000 workers it would cause another 351 other NJ residents to lose their jobs becuase of the money that would be taken out of the NJ Economy? In addition, the toal cost to the federal, state and local government woule be $19 million lost taxes and extra unemployment benefts. Laying off state workers right now would be a serious drag on the economy of the state of NJ at the wrong time. So the next time you, or someone you know starts knocking state workers, remember some of these facts. They have all been verified by the Center for labor and Community Research.
Before anyone goes ripping into state workers let me give you some real statisics. Only 4.1 billion, or 14% of state budget goes for the cost of wages AND benefits. They could layoff the entire workforce twice, and it would not close the budge gap. A huge % of the workforce is paid for through fees and there are little to no savings to laying them off (Motor Vehicles, banking and insurace, board of public utilities, etc). The recent give-backs the state workers have given back, which includes loss of raises, furloughs, increase in pension and benefit fees for workers to pay - have saved the state MILLIONS of Dollars and have COST state workers an average of $10,000 per worker. State workers are not whining over it. We just feel that we have given a lot back, and yet we still get bashed by the media and others who do not understand. We work for a lower salary than that in private industry. We pay taxes and help contribute to the NJ economy. Did you know that if the state laid off 1000 workers it would cause another 351 other NJ residents to lose their jobs becuase of the money that would be taken out of the NJ Economy? In addition, the toal cost to the federal, state and local government woule be $19 million lost taxes and extra unemployment benefts. Laying off state workers right now would be a serious drag on the economy of the state of NJ at the wrong time. So the next time you, or someone you know starts knocking state workers, remember some of these facts. They have all been verified by the Center for labor and Community Research.
I think it was preventive, as she did say "Before anyone goes ripping into state workers..."
Because people do and it was likely coming. I feel her pain. I'm not a state worker, but I work for a public agency. We get the same perceptions thrown at us--we're all lazy, have no-show jobs, get everything for nothing, perpetuate fraud, etc., etc., etc...proclaimed by all the self-appointed experts who have no idea what we really do for a living.
Maybe the idea of the transparency is to alleviate some of that kind of thinking, but I guess it isn't working so far.
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