Speaker 1: A couple of months ago, to Los Angeles City Council
Speaker 1: came up with a plan to deal with their coronavirus
Speaker 1: financial crisis. They decided to give city employees up to
Speaker 1: eighty thousand dollars to retire. If enough people took the money,
Speaker 1: the city could avoid pay cuts for tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of workers still on the payroll. That was the plan.
Speaker 1: Well two months later, the Los Angeles City Council is
Speaker 1: taking another crack at the same problem because they can't
Speaker 1: seem to get their financial house in order. This time,
Speaker 1: they want to give twelve hundred city workers buyouts and
Speaker 1: start mandatory furloughs for over fifteen thousand more. The furloughed
Speaker 1: workers would have to take one unpaid day off every
Speaker 1: two weeks. And here's the problem. Because of the shutdown,
Speaker 1: LA's tax revenues are weighed down, the cost of doing
Speaker 1: business is way up. But despite the financial crisis, some
Speaker 1: city union workers are balking at unpaid furloughs. They don't
Speaker 1: buy the idea that they are the ones that ought
Speaker 1: to take it in the shorts. They want their money
Speaker 1: on time, no questions asked. Now before anybody pulls out
Speaker 1: their hankies, to wipe over the plight of the l
Speaker 1: A City workers, to weep over it. Remember this, millions
Speaker 1: of Americans have lost jobs and businesses with no buyouts
Speaker 1: and no furloughs, while the Democrats who insisted on these
Speaker 1: shutdowns didn't give a damn. Maybe you should wipe something