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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!

""Go out into the real world (commercial/business) and find a job!""

Sir, I live in the "real world", and have done for the past thirty years. Unless, of course, you count those six years in the military as not being in the "real world".

I agree with Almondjoy. Sure, there are large numbers of government jobs that aren't really necessary. However, many of those are administrators. 98% of the rest are doing honest work that needs doing, and that should be done by government.

I lived in Oregon for 2.5 years, and I have family there today. One of them worked for government for eight years. He was a maintence technician at OSU. His job took him into dorm rooms, class rooms, laboratories, horse barns etc., etc. That is an example of job that should be run by the state, for security reasons.

In 1994, I think it was, a referendum passed that required that the benefits of all state employees be reduced by 15%.

Tell me, sir, how you and your family would do if your benefit package were cut by 15%? That includes pension, insurance, vacation days, sick days and I don't remember what all.

This is madding. The solution for Oregon budget problems is so simple that even Rats like Gov. Idiot should be able to understand it. Sell some state owned timber before it burns up which would put some Oregonians to work so they could pay taxes that would help the state out of its budget problem. Oh, by the way Gov., this maybe just a rumor, but I heard that if you plant little trees where you cut big trees, overtime, they become big treea too.

As typical you assume I have a gov't job.. what is wrong with a gov't job anyways? Would you expect our military to take a pay cut? And what exactly do you determine is a fair wage.. do you think a Navy Seal one of the most elite troopers in the world deserves less money than say a baseball player? What's so great about the private sector besides rewarding the theifing lying corporate scumbags that we see today. Thanks for playing and have a nice day.