Governor Makes a Tough Decision on California State Employees...

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Today Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an order to cut down about 10,000 jobs for temporary state workers and lowering the pay to $6.55 an hour to about 200,000 state employees to make sure the state can pay its bills without a state budget. The governor does plan to reverse those moves once lawmakers come to a budget agreement which means that the state would have to rehire temporary workers and give employees their whole pay back, but its been over a month and still lawmakers haven't decided to bridge a $15.2 billion shortfall in a $101 billion general fund budget. So we will have to wait and see what goes on from there as we head into August. The governor did apologize to the families that are already struggling financially to the media but he had to choice left.