Wally Nunn For Governor

Former Delaware County Council Chairman Wally Nunn had this column in yesterday's (Feb. 11) Philadelphia Inquirer in which he points out that "downsizing" is a word you never hear in Harrisburg and our elected officials ought to start using it.

He notes that of the of  the 5.6 million people working in Pennsylvania, 753,000 are government workers and that while more than 10 percent of the private workforce has found itself unemployed with the Obama recession virtually none of the government workers have.

Nunn notes that the state employs the equivalent of 160,000 full-time employees making more than $8 billion a year in salaries, and that there are 195,000 employed in teaching elementary and secondary school, making more than $10 billion. 

This is all sans benefits and pensions, of course.

Wally Nunn for governor.

Meanwhile, over in New Jersey, it looks like Gov. Chris Christie gets it.

 

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