I think 2 year union contracts with no increases would be reasonable. Let's compare that to 2% per year saves us .5 billion per year compounded so 2.5 billion at the end of the term. And then let's call waste another billion so 3
Billion at the end of term
So we've frozen salaries for 2 years and eliminated waste and saved 5.5 billion. Though that billion in waste we cut a year did cause 10000 (100k per person) more people to be unemployed and we probably spent 250-500 million in severance to do it plus 100 million in tax losses so take a billion of the savings number.
So I think there is 4.5 billion total in the next 3 years of low hanging fruit.
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