In a normal situation, paying employees not to work would be considered operating a 'ghost payroll,' although the CTA was just trying to make the best of it.
"You're taking a 747, disassembling it, reassembling it, and then jacking it up to a very high level," said Aboulafia, a managing director at AeroDynamic Advisory, a consulting firm.
I support cutting as much spending as we could get consensus on. I will even accept compromise on how much spending cuts we can get, but I'm not voting to add five trillion to the deficit or to the debt ceiling.
San Jose is experiencing federal funding cuts that jeopardize crucial community projects. Existing requests for $5.5 million were omitted from the government's recent spending resolution.