Our Governor gave the “state of the State” address yesterday. He’s calling for layoffs of State workers (because there’s nothing like more unemployment to help out a sluggish economy), cuts to State aid for schools, and, oh, I don’t know, probably tax cuts for rich people or something.<\/p>\n
Locally, Syracuse University yesterday announced 48 layoffs (in addition to hiring freezes that have been put into effect). Now, 48 people isn’t a huge number for the largest private employer (second overall) still standing around here, but it isn’t so much how many<\/em><\/strong> people are getting dumped, but the fact that Syracuse University – which has been around here since 1870 or so – needs to lay off anybody at all. <\/p>\n It’s not as if they’re sending jobs to India (if anything, they insource<\/em><\/strong> students and faculty from other countries), or that they’re producing widgets that they can make cheaper in Mexico. Hell, if they need more money, they can just let a few more dumb rich kids from Long Island enroll. They’re in the midst of raising $1 billion to add to their endowment (they’re more than halfway there), and always have their hand out to the alumni (might as well stop sending that crap to our house; I vowed that that $60 late fee on a $30 balance was the last penny they’d ever get from me, and the College of Nursing that Granny got her degree from doesn’t even exist anymore). <\/p>\n So, it’s just kind of a shocking sign of the times that SU would have to lay people off, even if it’s “only” 48 (which, they say, will save them $8 million this year, and $11 million in 2010). The US corporate\/fascist economy is a big scam – a house of cards But, until the Gov decides to lay me<\/em><\/strong> off, I guess I’d better get off my ass and get ready for work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our Governor gave the “state of the State” address yesterday. He’s calling for layoffs of State workers (because there’s nothing like more unemployment to help out a sluggish economy), cuts to State aid for schools, and, oh, I don’t know, probably tax cuts for rich people or something. Locally, Syracuse University yesterday announced 48 layoffs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ready to come<\/del> in the process of crashing down around us, and things aren’t going to be much fun around here (for us regular folks; the rich people – those that weren’t scammed by Bernie Madoff, anyway – shouldn’t have much to worry about, either from our “don’t tax the millionaires” Governor, or our “I’ll play ball with the Republicans on tax cuts” President-elect).<\/p>\n