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Not to mention that their pension and health benefits are better than mine! They get to bank all of their unused sick time and apply it towards their pension calculation whereas I lose whatever I don’t use. And they get every stinkin’ holiday off that the gov’t so gratiously affords them. Having at one time when the kids were younger make me take days off of my job to stay home with my kids so they can enjoy their holiday.

I have no love left to give!

I want State employees to get good (competitive) salaries and benefits. I want the State to be able to attract and retain competent, happy employees. In fact, I want them to be not only qualified, but highly efficient. That said, I think there should be a lot FEWER of them! Benefits and salaries have grown in State government while private employers have scaled back. There is no legal reason that they can't make changes to the State pension plans on a prospective basis. Changing the base salary for pension calculations (as you mentioned) is just one change they could make. But I don't think they want to fix it... I think they want it to implode as they push the state into insolvency. (see the other posts by Carry_Okie on this thread).