[kabar]

"Even if you laid off everyone (in state employment), it still wouldn't take care of the deficit, and you wouldn't have anyone left to serve the public," contends Eric Bailey, communication director for one of Connecticut's biggest unions, AFT, which represents nearly 20 percent of state employees.

A phony strawman. Those employees are administering state programs that could also be cut. If you cut programs, you wouldn't need as many state employees.

[gusopol3]

I wonder how many of the programs are looking out after the interests of the state workers.

[tiki]

Would it be too simple to start with a 10% cut to everyone, and I mean everyone, who has a regular job with the government? Or even 10% of the jobs cuz then you’d only PO 10% of the government piggies instead of 100%.