Each state, public, TAXPAID deptartment, should just be told they have to reduce their staff by 'X' amount of employees. Let each department head make the decision on 'what job' can be done away with. Not 'what person'. This is just nonsense! IMHO
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -James Madison
The public sector workers and educators of New York don’t have a choice. They must take a cut in compensation at least equivalent to the average reductions in the private sector, with the highest paid taking the largest percentage cuts. The economic assumptions on which current contracts were negotiated no longer exist. If you will not do this, you will further wound the economy, erode the size of the public-sector work force, lose public support and become the targets of a growing suspicion that you believe you are too special or too powerful to share the pain of an economic crisis that has demolished retirement savings, ruined careers and forfeited homes. No public employee should be paid more than $149,000 a year — 10 times the minimum wage. Public pensioners must be required to pay state income taxes on the portion of their pensions exceeding $20,000 — just like private-sector retirees. The need for the wealthy to pay more taxes is no excuse for the public sector to do nothing. The financial crisis is not the fault of public employees any more than the sinking of the Titanic was the fault of its passengers. Blame is not the issue. Survival is. Now is the time to cast off unrealistic expectations. Now is the time to forsake litigation and to tear up contracts. Hold your noses, because it stinks. Vomit if it sickens you. But now is the time for courage and patriotic sacrifice. JERRY MOORE Scotia
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