According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, “MGM Mirage, the Strip’s largest casino operator is laying off some 440 management employees at both the property and corporate levels, a response to the souring national economy but also part of a corporate belt tightening program begun last year.”
Contrast that acknowledgement of fiscal reality with the State of Nevada, where Gov. Jim Gibbons and legislative leaders have insisted on weathering the souring Nevada economy and tightening its own belt without laying off even a single government employee.
Unbelievably, not one government employee in the entire taxpayer-funded workforce is deemed expendable in the current budget crisis. NOT ONE. Not even Tom McCormick.
What in the world makes government workers so special that they’re not subject to the same kinds of unfortunate fiscal realities private sector workers are? I guess some truly are more equal than others.
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Chuck Muth
Filed under: Nevada
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