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Originally Posted by fishbones
Mike, do you do legal work for the state like drug court, court appointed counsel, etc....?
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No, I'm employed full time by the state.
Patrick wants to cut my agency by 13% for FY 2010. And I currently pay 25% of my monthly health insurance costs.
I don't know of too many--if any--rank and file state employees who won't be affected by budget cuts. They'll either be layoffs or unpaid furloughs, and everyone will have to kick in more for their health benefits. That state workers won't also suffer the same effects Larry mentioned is a fallacy---unless your talking about the Hackarama which just got a 5.5%
increase in their base salary.
The only agency that I'm aware of so far that hasn't been asked for cuts is the state Corrections Department. Even the DAs offices across the state are facing an 8% cut.