Colleagues,

If you haven't already made your five calls listed below, what are you waiting for??  These are critical times we are in.  We all need to get active or suffer the consequences.  Here are the latest scenarios for the SDCCD:

1)  Best Case:  Tax Extension Bill gets the 4 Republican votes needed to make it on to the June ballot.  
Consequence:  SDDCD revenue cut by 
$10,062,000.

2)  Worse Case:  
Tax Extension Bill fails to get the 4 Republican votes needed to make it on to the June ballot.  Prop. 98 is not suspended.  
Consequence:  SDDCD revenue cut by 
$17,696,000.

3)  Worst Case:  
Tax Extension Bill fails to get the 4 Republican votes needed to make it on to the June ballot.  Prop. 98 is suspended.  
Consequence:  SDDCD revenue cut by 
$27,932,000.

If you think we can survive a 
$27,932,000 cut in revenue without severe cuts in the number of jobs, salary levels, and employee paid benefit premium costs, you need to stop smoking crack at work.

Everyone of us needs to call the five Republican offices below, every day, until a budget deal is reached.  If that is too much to ask to protect your job and benefits, please let me know right away.

Severe cuts of this magnitude are what precipitate a "Wisconsin scenario."  First, you dramatically de-fund the public sector, thus weakening the unions and the workers' voice, then when they have lost their ability to fight back, you strip them of their fundamental constitutional rights.  If you're OK with millionaires, billionaires, and corporations continuing to accumulate more and more wealth, at our expense, while our standard of living continues to decline, then do nothing.  But don't come crying to me later when your standard of living resembles that of a worker in a third world country.

Jim

Budget information source:  http://www.ccleague.net/district-budget-impact/