{"id":768,"date":"2009-08-28T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=768"},"modified":"2009-08-28T11:36:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T15:36:57","slug":"are-we-out-of-the-woods-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Are we out of the woods yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/fundaberg_flag_philadelphia.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-769\" title=\"fundaberg_flag_philadelphia\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/fundaberg_flag_philadelphia-300x200.gif\" alt=\"fundaberg_flag_philadelphia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/fundaberg_flag_philadelphia-300x200.gif 300w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/fundaberg_flag_philadelphia.gif 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harrisburg took a big step to letting the city raise sales tax and restructure (*shudder*) pension plan payments (assigning a portion of pensions for new employees to *ulp* 401k plans).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/?p=741\">Plan C<\/a> is still set to go into effect on September 18, effectively dismantling large portions of city government (including the Court system?).\u00a0 The unions are not too psyched about the pension plans that will be avvailable for new employees, but its hard to see how we can quibble over details with so much on the line.\u00a0 The revised bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/20090828_Nip___tuck_for_city_budget_cuts.html\">HB 1828 now goes back to the House for another vote<\/a>.\u00a0 they&#8217;re still analyzing, but if we can get through that, we&#8217;re pretty much there and we can put Plan C back in the drawer.<\/p>\n<p>What is unclear is whether this is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.\u00a0 I know that the sales tax increase has some potential, but I also know there is a lot of fat in city government.\u00a0 Maybe we don&#8217;t need to eliminate 3000 jobs, but we do need to do something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrisburg took a big step to letting the city raise sales tax and restructure (*shudder*) pension plan payments (assigning a portion of pensions for new employees to *ulp* 401k plans).\u00a0 Plan C is still set to go into effect on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=768\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[729,728,694,1489,727],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}