(quoted from post at 02:21:33 09/25/15)
(quoted from post at 16:13:28 09/24/15)
(quoted from post at 16:33:14 09/24/15) I am thinking of retireing from my stupid job. For the past thirty years went to work to clean classrooms and clean a school. The first twenty three years where great I was at only one school site and till they changed it. They made up clean teams and made us to handle four big schools a night. This way of thinking keeps going I see stuff that would had been fixed if I was only at one school site plus other things that would had been cleaned. As I grow older in age I now think that retireing out is better because I am not going to clean four big schools a every night when I get to 60. Employers love when they can get you to leave. I am going to grow up next year I am going to do one of my dreams start restoring my tractors and automoblies. I am going to seat on my porch and drink a nice cold beer at night realizeing that I would be rushing around cleaning a school at that time.
I was a janitor at a Wisconsin university. I had 28 years in when I decided to pull the pin. I wanted to get thirty years, but my health wouldn't let me. Things have really gotten bad since I left. With the big cuts Governor Walker imposed on the UW system the campus hasn't been filling any janitor positions after the position is vacated due to retirement. There are 20 positions open right now. And all along everyone was thinking that these budget cuts would put the clamps on the high paid positions at the university's.. It only ends up hurting the little guys. Now everyone that is left are having to do more with less.
Ruh Ro.... Pinocchio...
Civics lesson for those interested. The govenor does not have the authority to give or take away money from the UW system so blaming him (or praising him for that matter) is giving him credit beyond what he actually did. Budgeting money is done by the legislature under the Wisconsin budget. A governer can "ask" for things in the budget but the legislature is not necessarily going to give it to him, far from it actually. After the budget bill passes BOTH houses, it goes to the governer to sign or veto. The governer is not a dictator and cant just do what he wants with money for the UW systm or any other agency.
Once the UW system gets money via the budget, some is earmaked for certain things but the rest is given with no restrictions. Considering the state of Wisconsin is the 5th largest supplier of money for the UW system at about 17% of the total budget, the UW is hardly hog tied with its funds, the federal goverment is much harder to deal with due to matching funds and other restrictions.
After you set aside the massive amounts of federal money with strings, some gifts and a small amount of state money, the UW is free to do what it wants with its money. That means, if they choise to continue paying massive salaries to management (known as "the suits") and screw over some stooges that push a broom, thats the UWs choice. The governer and the legislature have no say in that other than a very tiny amount of money that has strings on it. To say a "governor" is responsible for the UW system not hiring a human kickstand for a broom is not only wrong, its an outright lie.
Now, lets factor in just a short time ago, the UW system was sitting on a billion dollars in a slush fund to cover future shortfalls in budgets. And, this fund was growing every year, the last year before it was discovered it grew 25%. This fund was HIDDEN, not a mistake, not "extra" to be used up next year.... HIDDEN from the public. Well, they got caught. So the legislature decided to cut back on funds to the UW system (as they should have). The state could have stopped giving money altogether to the UW for 5 years and it wouldnt have depleated the slush fund. Read that again.... the state could have stopped giving money to the UW for 5 full years and it wouldnt have hurt the UW systems budget at all because they had that money just sitting there waiting for use. But even knowing that, the governor still asked for money in the budget for the UW because it is so important. The assembly and senate agreed but ended up giving less than they would have simply because the UW had so dang much money just sitting there. After the bill was sent to the governor, it was signed.
So there ya have it, the readers digest version of "Hiding money from the taxpayers and getting caught". Hiding money like that is fraud and usually people go to jail for stunts like that but you know that rules, if you are a nnalert its OK and even encouraged. But if one does that, they should never expect continued increases in funds after it is discovered. And one should never bame a governor for not hiring a janitor when that aint his call (its the UW systems call), doing that is a lie.
That concluded the civics leason for today...
