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Why should gov't employees take pay cuts.. just cause they do a dirty job you don't want to do.. or are a part of the system that you don't like why should they suffer for your behalf. Why don't you take a pay cut so your company and make a profit and pay more taxes?

What kind of a sick response is that?
Go out into the real world (commercial/business) and find a job!

You must be a government employee, with 3 - 4 weeks vacation 12 sick days(and you use em all), operate at 15 to 20% less productivity than the private sector, have your reitierment paid for(PERS II) get to work late and leave early.

Don't stand near a building where govenment emplyees work because you will be stampeded to death at 4:30. Public employees get 20 to 25% more benefits than equivelent jobs in the private sector. Almost impossible to fire(unless you express conservative views.

I hve consulted in the private and public sector on productivity, compensation, and organization for many years. Middle management in the public sector is pathetic, which causes most of the low porductivity at the lower levels. Throw in the policical rascals at the top and your doomed. Happens in the private sector too, but then they go out of business.

How to reduce costs: Schools -- Vouchers
Department of Transportation - eliminate union wage requirement in contracting.
Have all state employees count off and eliminate every third one.

Why should gov't employees take pay cuts

Because this is the poorest state in the Union. THis state has the highest unemployment figures in the Nation.

Many people are unemployed, and, so how can they keep paying the high taxes?

The government here has swelled to a giagantic albatross around our necks...THAT'S WHY!!!!

My company does make a profit and has for the last 14 years in a row. As the owner and manager of my company I don't constantly try to operate beyond our means like govt. constantly does. I also don't have to deal with out of control unions and I don't have work rules that allow employees to do no work for their pay.
When I got out of the Army while going to college I worked as a dispatcher at Bay Pines Medical center in St. Pete Fl.
2 painters I met there. One worked so very well I'd love to have had him paint my home. Another was so poor I wouldn't let him paint my dogs house. Both hired approx. the same time. Both made the same salary. Why? where is the incentive? There is none in the socialist way of govt.
Govt. employees are fat lazy and usually don't try too hard because there is no incentive to give a damn. Raise taxes for more pathetic govt programs that last forever and just don't work.