Queen Chrissy blows it: NO ONE should be off the table to fix the budget, including state employees and teachers.

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Proving she's a clueless idiot when it comes to governance, Queen Chrissy has arbitrarily decided that the prima donnas working for the state won't have "to sacrifice more than they already are to balance the state government budget next year."

What these people don't understand is that they have "sacrificed" next to nothing.

The hundreds of thousands unemployed and the taxpayers shafted by Chrissy's reign... they are the one's who've "sacrificed" to balance her fricking budget.

State employees and teachers (Gee... aren't teachers also paid by the state?) have had their pay and benefits hyper-inflated. They are paid way too much and their benefits are way too high.

Your Majesty, in case you haven't noticed, we're in a recession. The pay to these people exceeds hundreds of millions of dollars, and we're in an employer's market.

The pay of these people MUST be cut. It must be cut HARD, it musty be cut DEEPLY, and it must be cut NOW.

I get that these unions own you, Queeny. But the fact is that you answer to us. US. So instead of cutting salaries to save programs, you're going to cut programs to save salaries.

Seems like your priorities are pretty screwed up to me.

Read this and be amazed at how unutterably delusional this state's chief executive actually is.

Unbelievable.

Plan to shield state workers draws some criticism

BRAD SHANNON Olympian Staff writer • Published December 16, 2010

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State Sen. Joe Zarelli disagrees, but Gov. Chris Gregoire says it’s wrong to ask state employees or teachers to sacrifice more than they already are to balance the state government budget next year.

The Democratic governor is set to put out her supplemental budget today to bridge the remainder of a $1.1 billion budget deficit through June, and no further demands from state employees are expected. She expects pay reductions and higher health payments by workers in her two-year budget that starts July 1.

“Candidly, enough is enough,” Gregoire said in a news conference this week. “I would ask you to compare the sacrifice of state employees to any other public sector’s people.”

She pointed to agreements her negotiators reached with three labor unions earlier in the week that require pay reductions of about 3 percent beginning July 1 for the vast majority of general government workers. The cuts would last two years.

Under the agreements, workers in effect are being furloughed. They’ll see their nominal pay cut by 3 percent every two weeks, but they’ll also get time off in compensation – about 5.2 hours a month, or eight days a year, for each budget year through June 2013.

That alone will save about $330 million in state payroll costs, more than half of it in the state’s general fund. And, Gregoire and union leaders say, it spares 3,700 jobs from elimination.

But Zarelli, a Ridgefield Republican, said today he thinks Gregoire did not look far enough into the future to lock in lower costs for running government beyond 2013. He thinks the state should be lowering its base payroll and resetting it at a permanently lower level.

Zarelli would have lowered workers’ pay by perhaps 2.5 percent across the board in the two-year contract.

That anyone in any elective office could, presumably with a straight face, say something like this:

“Candidly, enough is enough,” Gregoire said in a news conference this week.
“I would ask you to compare the sacrifice of state employees to any other public
sector’s people.”

Shows an unbelievably shallow depth of knowledge concerning the people she would govern that it's simply impossible to understand.

I have seen my business income cut more than the pay or benefits of any state employee. Period.

So I have compared, and state employees come out dramatically ahead of me.

I live in a county with 13% plus unemployment, and this idiot wrapped in a moron actually believes this garbage?

I fear for our state. And is it any wonder we're in the horrific shape we're in?
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