San Francisco Logic?

[ImWithStupid]

Am I the only one who sees a problem with the economic policy of the Mayor of San Francisco?

 

San Francisco budget shortfall hits city payroll

 

By Jim Christie

REUTERS

 

12:42 p.m. April 2, 2008

 

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom cut 301 open jobs from the city's payroll Wednesday and warned of lay-offs for city staff in his latest effort to slash costs due to a $338 million city budget shortfall.

 

“These cuts do not mean a reduction in city services. But make no mistake, we will have to propose additional position reductions in the budget and these will result in lay-offs in the coming months,” Newsom said in a statement.

 

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He lays off city employees (US citizens) because the city is $338 million in the hole, and then...

 

San Francisco Reaches Out to Immigrants

 

By JESSE McKINLEY

Published: April 6, 2008

 

SAN FRANCISCO — The city of San Francisco has started an advertising push with a very specific target market: illegal immigrants. And while the advertisements will come in a bundle of languages — English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese — they all carry the same message: you are safe here.

 

In what may be the first such campaign of its kind, the city plans to publish multilanguage brochures and fill the airwaves with advertisements relaying assurance that San Francisco will not report them to federal immigration authorities.

 

Mayor Gavin Newsom said the campaign was simply an amplification of a longstanding position of not cooperating with immigration raids or other enforcement. The city passed a so-called sanctuary ordinance in 1989.

 

Still, Mr. Newsom said, it never hurts to advertise. “It’s one thing to have a policy on paper,” he said. “It’s another to communicate it directly to people who could be impacted.”

 

The television and radio campaign will tell immigrants they have “safe access” to public services, including schools, health clinics and — perhaps most importantly — the police, something that local law enforcement officials say is a chronic problem in ?migr? communities.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/us/06immig.html?ref=us

 

 

 

launches an $80 million ad campaign to get illegal immigrants to take advantage of the cities social programs, designed for Americans, which will cost the city even more money.

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[wez]

Hahahahaha... Good one Mayor. Plus, if firing that many people doesn't equate to a reduction in service, why the hell did they have jobs in the first place?

[Old Salt]

Hahahahaha... Good one Mayor. Plus, if firing that many people doesn't equate to a reduction in service, why the hell did they have jobs in the first place?

I'm pretty sure "open jobs" are positions that are budgeted for but don't have an incumbent. Doing away with those jobs will reduce the budget with no pain - the easy way out. But chances are they're the lowest paying jobs.

[ImWithStupid]

I'm pretty sure "open jobs" are positions that are budgeted for but don't have an incumbent. Doing away with those jobs will reduce the budget with no pain - the easy way out. But chances are they're the lowest paying jobs.

 

That still doesn't help the future city employees that will be laid off.

 

I wonder how many could keep their jobs if they didn't spend $80 million on advertising to give millions more to illegal immigrants.

[RegisteredAndEducated]

That still doesn't help the future city employees that will be laid off.

 

I wonder how many could keep their jobs if they didn't spend $80 million on advertising to give millions more to illegal immigrants.

 

I've got a guess... Maybe... all of them?

 

 

When is california just going to fall off? Ugh... That place is so horrible.