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Originally Posted by Argie's Wife
Get real - the problem isn't the state workers - it's the government who approves the budgets, doesn't trim the fat, increases the taxes and fees during one of the worst fiscal years we've ever seen in this state - even votes raises for themselves - that are the real problem. Not Joe State-Worker.
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Like the saying goes. Men and women do not fight wars, Governments do.
As an aside, I see where SAMIAM is coming from, but AW is correct the state has allowed this get to this level. It is hard not feel the same way SAMIAM does when you go to DMV and it takes all day (even though 6 people are chating at the coffee maker out back), or you travel past workers on the side of the road and they have six people performing the task that one on my crew does. When the ax falls it is typically not the person that lifted it that gets hurt. But the state is not run like a business (even though it should be) so for some reason most people in government jobs do not feel the same pinch as the rest of us in the private sector. The difference is that we do not get TV time to tell our story of how terrible this downturn is for us.
I know this is the typical feel good, heart tugging story that WMUR likes to splurt all over us. The idea is I do not want to hear someone telling me how awful things are in his life, just because he is affected by a layoff that has received a lot of air time. I could give a list and I am sure everyone on this board could as well, of people that have lost jobs in the last year.