we re here because we are elected to make tough decisions. i was elected and i interviewed for this job over the last two years and told the voters what i would do to get the people working against. we made bold changes in turning the business climate around to make it easier for private sector employers to put people to work to ease up regulation and cost of healthcare. now, the next the question for us is to balance our budget and do it in the way that is prudent for the future not only for state but ultimately local governments can have those same tools. that really what we re had he heart of today. i want to clarify, i have heard from several days in some union leaders at the state level the same unions that tried to cram through a series of employee contracts in december, after the election, before i was sworn this who had no interest in talking to us again about
i ve now heard from several days in, the same unions who tried to cram through a series of employee contracts in december, who after the election, before i was sworn in, who had no interest in talking to us then about negotiating, but wanted to get that pushed through while they still had the previous majorities in place, unfortunately for the taxpayers of this state, they failed to do so. now suddenly are talking about being interested in negotiating. again, we don t have any money. we can t make a good faith effort to negotiate when we don t have any money. but more important than the fact that at the state level in the state gek dek cade, the average amount of time for a contract negotiation has taken 15 months. the reality here beyond that is for our local governments. and i used to be a local county executive, for our local government, i know this well firsthand. we can t expect for our 72 counties, for our 424 school districts and more than 1,000 municipal governments across the
the safety approach that general motors and others are doing, yes. they have to go to receivership. and call halt to everything. we re going to go back to square one. but wait, general motors, we got to bail out. got a bail-out. but it put them in a position of having to renegotiate employee contracts. and supplier contracts and so forth. so, it did allow them that flexibility. you know, aside from the fact we all subsidize that effort. california can do it. it has to do it quickly because it s beginning to lose population as troy mentioned earlier to other states. in the last five years, california lost nearly 300,000 taxpayers and their families. two other states throughout migration. and they took with them $26 billion in income out of the state. that mean has the california economy is going to be starting to shrink. and their tax base is shrinking, too. that means they are going to constantly face this never-ending spiral of trying to tax shrinking pool of income with highe
receivership. and call halt to everything. we re going to go back to square one. but wait, general motors, we got to bail out. got a bail-out. but it put them in a position of having to renegotiate employee contracts. and supplier contracts and so forth. so, it did allow them that flexibility. you know, aside from the fact we all subsidize that effort. california can do it. it has to do it quickly because it s beginning to lose population as troy mentioned earlier to other states. in the last five years, california lost nearly 300,000 taxpayers and their families. two other states throughout migration. and they took with them $26 billion in income out of the state. that mean has the california economy is going to be starting to shrink. and their tax base is shrinking, too. that means they are going to constantly face this never-ending spiral of trying to tax shrinking pool of income with higher taxes. glenn: where did they go? where did the people left when they go?
we re going to go back to square one. but wait, general motors, we got to bail out. got a bail-out. but it put them in a position of having to renegotiate employee contracts. and supplier contracts and so forth. so, it did allow them that flexibility. you know, aside from the fact we all subsidize that effort. california can do it. it has to do it quickly because it s beginning to lose population as troy mentioned earlier to other states. in the last five years, california lost nearly 300,000 taxpayers and their families. two other states throughout migration. and they took with them $26 billion in income out of the state. that mean has the california economy is going to be starting to shrink. and their tax base is shrinking, too. that means they are going to constantly face this never-ending spiral of trying to tax shrinking pool of income with higher taxes. glenn: where did they go? where did the people left when they go? the rest of the country.