Public universities, state workers
expected to feel brunt of $700
million cuts in Missouri budget
Saint Louis Post Dispatch,
by
Kurt Erickson
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
4/28/2020 8:24:48 AM
Raises for Missouri’s low-paid state workers and funding for public colleges and universities are on the chopping block as lawmakers begin piecing together a revamped spending plan.
With the rest of the state’s residents under a stay-at-home order, lawmakers returned to the Capitol Monday with an eye on sending Gov. Mike Parson a budget blueprint by May 8 reflecting a steep drop in revenue because of the coronavirus.
In all, the plan advancing in the House is about $700 million less than what was in the pipeline earlier this year, before the global pandemic sent the economy into a free-fall.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
john56 4/28/2020 8:43:59 AM (No. 394112)
Join the club.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
IowaDad 4/28/2020 8:58:39 AM (No. 394131)
Universities should only get extra support to the extent that they actually educate students. They should not get support for indoctrination with sexual and racial psychobabble, advanced victimology and entitlement.
14 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
unagator 4/28/2020 9:02:26 AM (No. 394139)
The "global pandemic" didn't send the economy into a free fall. Panicked politicians did.
20 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
h24015 4/28/2020 9:13:22 AM (No. 394148)
An "aha" moment when some people realize governments can't just print money.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/28/2020 9:15:41 AM (No. 394155)
Coming to most shut down states everywhere. Unlike the Federal goobernment, states can't print money. Probably a pain long overdue.
9 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
justavoter 4/28/2020 9:21:52 AM (No. 394167)
The cuts and layoffs in state and local governments should have started the day the shutdown went into effect.
21 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/28/2020 9:27:13 AM (No. 394173)
No government at any level - - federal, state, or local - - should be allowed to own, operate, or subsidize any school of any kind.
All government funding of education should be ZEROED OUT - - right now.
12 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
cor-vet 4/28/2020 9:35:37 AM (No. 394183)
What a shame that 'low-paid' state workers raises are on the chopping block! If these are some of the 'non-essentials' that are sent home on paid vacation every time there's the slightest problem, they don't need a raise. And the loss of a raise is not worse than the loss of your job, like many in the private sector are losing.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/28/2020 9:44:47 AM (No. 394192)
And the downside is? At least Missouri is choosing the right targets for cuts. Every state has bloated bureaucracies, some much bigger than others and who in their right mind ever decided that every high school student is capable of being successful in college? Most colleges closing their doors now should not have been operating in the first place. Those who are capable and motivated to graduate are forced not only to pay their own tuition but to pay the tuition of others who are on a free ride, pay for the athletic infrastructure, the hundreds of employees and worst of all, the tenured professors who do less work than the cafeteria workers. Some of this downsizing is long overdue.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 4/28/2020 10:34:23 AM (No. 394237)
Universities never have answers to any problems.
And yet, they are full of experts who know everything.
12 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/28/2020 10:41:39 AM (No. 394244)
Just as robins are a sure sign that winter is about over, so too the sighting of academic and government employees (i.e., the largest funders of the Democrat Crime Club) losing their jobs is a sure sign that the lockdowns are about over too. Up until now it's been a very nice fully paid staycation for them. Now it's CATASTROPHE!!!
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Having been a member of the bloated bureaucracy I can attest that the last hired, least expensive, most worked will be the first to go. The Real burrowed in will stay in place, here comes smoke and mirrors.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
3XALADY 4/28/2020 10:52:14 AM (No. 394252)
I heard county officials say this morning on a local talk radio show that income for our little county is $64,000 down because of the shutdown. Things are opening up [carefully] on Monday.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/28/2020 11:02:06 AM (No. 394261)
So, the pain is finally starting to reach the special protected class of government workers. If we can't work, the trickle down is there is no money for them to work. The ride was fun while it lasted. Welcome to our world.
5 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 4/28/2020 11:42:09 AM (No. 394298)
Knew this would happen.
Hopefully those thug cop's are on the chopping block too.
States will have no choice but to start laying of workers and have rif's
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 4/28/2020 11:42:13 AM (No. 394300)
The proper response to cuts in income is cuts in spending. Some states grasp this concept. Go Missouri.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/28/2020 1:07:33 PM (No. 394387)
Here's hoping these government parasites finally feel what the general population has been going through. NO government pay, NO unemployment of any kind. Let them feel the pain of their fellow citizens.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
swarfer 4/28/2020 6:15:26 PM (No. 394698)
Exactly what does "low payed" mean for a state employee?
Do they have lifetime employment?
Do they usually get regular pay increases?
Do they have generous vacation plans?
Do they have affordable healthcare?
Do they have retirement better than social security?
Do they only work 40 hr/wk?
The answer is probably yes!
Welcome to the real world.
Low pay is a clerk in a convince or department store.
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