{"id":6347,"date":"2010-07-31T15:57:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T19:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2010-07-31T15:57:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T19:57:08","slug":"bell-ca-city-salary-scandal-could-be-the-tip-of-the-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6347\/bell-ca-city-salary-scandal-could-be-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell, CA City Salary Scandal Could be the Tip of the Iceberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_15633671?nclick_check=1 \" target=\"_blank\">Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling for all city, county and state employee salaries to be posted online<\/a> for easy access by citizens.\u00a0 Ordinarily, such a request wouldn\u2019t merit a mention in a governor\u2019s speech, but these aren\u2019t ordinary times.\u00a0 With California being home to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704895004575395323077051414.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5 \" target=\"_blank\">10 of the 12 highest unemployed metropolitan areas in the country<\/a>, this is not the era to be paying salaries that total a million dollars in less than a decade to individual public employees.<\/p>\n<p>The fallout from the City of Bell paying its top two city administrators plus the police chief a <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/61-state-issues\/688-a-tale-of-two-california-cities-provides-bellwether-for-golden-states-future\" target=\"_blank\">combined $1.6 million a year<\/a> led to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-4865-Christian-Worldview-Examiner~y2010m7d23-Three-Bell-California-city-officials-resign-over-high-salaries--video\" target=\"_blank\">resignations from all three<\/a>.\u00a0 If media and prosecutorial scrutiny grows to include other municipalities, the taxpaying public will have a much better idea whom to blame for a good chunk of the state\u2019s budget deficit: corrupt public officials and public employee unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is calling for all city, county and state employee salaries to be posted online for easy access by citizens.\u00a0 Ordinarily, such a request wouldn\u2019t merit a mention in a governor\u2019s speech, but these aren\u2019t ordinary times.\u00a0 With California being home to 10 of the 12 highest unemployed metropolitan areas in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[647,1634,299,351,761,18],"class_list":["post-6347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","tag-budget-deficit","tag-california","tag-corruption","tag-public-employee-unions","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6348,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions\/6348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}