Nixon swings ax, citizens scream "OUCH!"

kcstar.com ^ | 10/28/09 | Steve Kraske

[Kartographer]

Gov. Jay Nixon is cutting an additional $200 million from Missouri's budget and eliminating nearly 700 state employee jobs.

[Kartographer]

"Nixon said the cuts are necessary because of a continued decline in state tax revenues."

A Politician that gets how things should WORK!

[subterfuge]

mulitply the 700 by about 5 and that would be a great start.

[wac3rd]

No government worker ever produced any wealth or GNP. Necessary? Sure. Cops, firemen, teachers (some), judges.

There are so many layers of permanent bureaucrats that add no value...good move, Nixon!

[Adder]

Wow.

Thats $285,ooo per job.

Mighty fine work if you can get it.....

[jessduntno]

...and they retire with almost full pay and bennies...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Iowa’s gov cut about the same number of employees with a 10 percent across the board reduction in staff.

[Kartographer]

Plus all the laidoff ‘Dims’ will get hired by Obama to work for the FED. :-(

[familyop]

Missouri won’t have to pay the salaries or retirement benefits of those extra employees, because they will not have worked 20 years. ...big savings for taxpayers.

[ml/nj]

Let me guess.

He closed the Gateway Arch; and kept the welfare offices open?

ML/NJ

[OldMissileer]

Plus all the laidoff ‘Dims’ will get hired by Obama to work for the FED. :-(

Hillary's State Dept. is on a construction binge because they are hiring new people right and left and need office space. You have to be a leftist to get a job there but they are hiring a lot of people.

[Kartographer]

"He closed the Gateway Arch; and kept the welfare offices open?"
I am looking for some 'Dim' Governor to lay off 911 operators and then expand the program giving out cellphones to the homeless!

[surelyclintonsbaddream]

LOL Blunt made some cuts and they crucified him.Guess it is good a Demo is in there. That is the only way it can get done. He will not be vilified like Blunt was.

[Flathead Catfisherman]

I was standing in line at the grocery store last week in MO behind a guy paying with a Missouri Electronic Benefit Card while texting on his Blackberry.

I wanted to ask him why he pays for a cell phone but not for his own food.

[ml/nj]

I am looking for some 'Dim' Governor to lay off 911 operators and then expand the program giving out cellphones to the homeless!

My program is simple, BTW. Fire all State employees with an even employee identification number. Stop paying any state pensions that exceed $30,000 per year. (Got a $35,000 pension? Now it's zero.) Same thing with welfare. Nobody votes unless they pay more in taxes than they receive from the State government or one of its derivatives.

ML/NJ