“Though I’m sure everyone on this thread wouldn’t mind taking an involuntary 15 percent payback made necessary by the incompetence of others, right?”
That’s exactly what just happened at my private sector job and I’m glad to be working. I also had to lay off 2 people out of a team of 12 last week as well. Nobody wants to take a pay-cut, but what do you think raising my taxes to keep you working is for me, silly? You seem to want me to take the pay cut via higher taxes in order to avoid the same for you.
Us taxpayers simply can’t afford to keep state workers on the dole any longer. We do not get enough value for our money from them and its time to cut. Sorry, but things are tough all over.
Your assumption, like that of far too many others on this site, is that public employees exist to take two-hour lunch breaks and connive for extra time off. Sorry. I call BS on that sort of thinking.
The assumption is that public servants should simply sacrifice their dreams and the livelihoods they have tried to fashion for their families because they're all cheats. I call BS on that "argument" as well. Despite what you might think, and despite what you hear on this website, there are good and decent public servants all over this nation that work hard for the taxpayers who pay them.
Yep. Things are tough all over. I understand that first hand.