All of you are going to be a lot angrier in a year or so. You can’t make people who have no money pay taxes they can’t pay to give you exhorbitant salaries you don’t deserve to sit around doing virtually nothing.
What’s that Beatles tune:
He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans
For Nobody
Fits, doncha think?
There is little doubt among non-government employee taxpayers that the "public servants" are delusional. They have special status and can demand to set their own salaries forever with no consequences.
This may be a good time to revisit the concept of "merit" raises (lacking any merit whatsoever) and "step" raises. Guess who dreamed that up? the unions...
The State chief executive executive can just do a "Reagan Flight Controllers" on their butts and fire them all.
Anyone really think that the state workers will be missed?
Anyone think there is now a shortage of workers ready and willing to replace them?
Which may be the best solution. The new workers, a year from now, will not be threatening to strike to "catch up" to all the money that was "taken away" from them during the 2008-2009 financial meltdown...
The out of line salaries aren’t the killer. They can be bargained down possibly
The outlandish pensions and bennies and double dipping are the budget busters. Only bankruptcy can open up these contracts
The main problem with SEIU going on strike is who is going to notice? At least when our overpaid, underworked Pennsylvania Turnpike workers went on strike a few years ago, we got flat rates (and sometimes even free passage) and the satisfaction of honking at them at the turnpike entrances.