{"id":1856,"date":"2011-02-22T10:37:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T15:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2011-02-22T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T15:39:29","slug":"i-call-bulls-on-carol-bowshier-of-the-ohio-civil-service-employee-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"I Call Bulls#!\/ on Carol Bowshier of the Ohio Civil Service Employee Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on Fox&#8217;s America&#8217;s Newsroom in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/on-air\/americas-newsroom\/index.html#\/v\/4549644\/heated-union-battle-heading-to-ohio\/?playlist_id=86909\" target=\"_Blank\">an interview conducted by Bill Hemmer<\/a>, Carol Bowshier, the chief of staff for the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well the fact is, we could lay off every state worker in Ohio.  Every police officer, every firefighter, every corrections officer and we would only close 1\/4 of the $8Billion gap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I call Bulls#!\/ on Ms. Bowshier, because her assumption means the average salary of each public service employee is under $13,000 a year which we all know is simply not the case.<\/p>\n<p>As Bill stated at the beginning of the interview, this would affect all 330,000 state employees.<\/p>\n<p>So do the math.  <strong>If the WHOLE $8Billion was being laid on the union workers (which it is not) <\/strong> then all we have to do is take the $8 Billion divided by 330,000 and we get a measly $24242 per employee (over 2 years meaning the actual per employee cost to eliminate the $8Billion is only $12,121 per year).<\/p>\n<p>And add in the fact that the $8Billion is NOT being solely burdened by the public union workers, these austerity moves by Ohio will likely be able to put the state into a surplus situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on Fox&#8217;s America&#8217;s Newsroom in an interview conducted by Bill Hemmer, Carol Bowshier, the chief of staff for the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association says: Well the fact is, we could lay off every state worker in Ohio. Every police officer, every firefighter, every corrections officer and we would only close 1\/4 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,39,51,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-numbers-dont-lie","category-politics-american","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}