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The question is whether the liberals in the State Legislature will accept ANY cuts. At a minimum the GOP will reject ANY budget that has NO cuts and ALL tax increases. Therein lies the makings of an impasse unless the Democrats in the State Legislature give ground.

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"Bruce Blanning, speaking on behalf of engineers working for the state, also said the state could save money by eliminating outside contracts."

This is true. The state has to pay outside companies billions to do the work of state employees. Problems is, they end up paying twice because you can't fire the incompetent chair monkeys that work for the state. Some state workers are not completely incompetent, but they are the exception.