Get real: Taxpayer suffering, state deficit should forestall pay hikes and pension sweeteners
"It defies logic that lawmakers refuse to rescind a 3 percent raise for unionized state workers and continue to discuss a $2.9 billion union-proposed plan to fatten teachers' pensions this spring.
When there's a $1.6 billion hole in the 2011 budget, neither of those expenditures should be on the table.
But Senate Democrats have blocked a proposal to cancel the raises.
The 22-15 party-line vote on Wednesday was short of the two-thirds majority necessary to prevent the $48 million in pay increases from taking effect Oct. 1.
Twenty-six votes are necessary."
The two Americas.
We tighten our belts so they can buy new, bigger belts with our money.
Is this what America is supposed to be?
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