Comments on: State agencies asked to plan for deeper budget cuts

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By: Misinformation again

Misinformation again — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:12:10 +0000

Nice to see misinformation being spread.

Under the Fletcher administration workers making under $60,000 a year got bigger raises than those making above that amount.

Under Beshear, the exact opposite. Those with higher incomes got bigger raises than the lower income folks.

Somehow I don’t think we’d have had this budget “crisis” if Fletcher had been re-elected. It’s a smokescreen for casino gambling and higher taxes.

By: C

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:51:23 +0000

…again, NO mention of cuts to the $425 million PRISON budget! duh, hello? Until we value EDUCATION more than INCARCERATION, our PROBLEMS will never be solved…Wake-up SHEEPLE! COMMONSENSE isn’t COMMON!

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:20:30 +0000

Thunderstorm:

With all due respect, don’t even compare state employee raises to retiree raises. State employees have not received the annual cost of living for at least 5 years, but yet retirees have received this, which has averaged 3-4 percent each year. It should be the same for both state employees and retirees.

By: Thunder Storm

Thunder Storm — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:21:36 +0000

Strugglingstate worker,
We also didn’t hardly get any raises the last 8 years, usually your highest earning years. When we did they were of the $200 variety. That caused my expected monthly retirement to drop by hundreds of dollars per month. We worked our 30 years or more to earn our time in the sun

How do propose going after retirees? We paid into the system and it is NOT funded by general fund dollars, so whats the point?

They have already gone after us too. No longer do we get COLA (cost of living adjustments), it maxes out at 1.5%.

Double dippers do not earn a second retirement any more. What the state gains in experience, it also gains in not having to pay the employee portion of retirement costs.

By: beal

beal — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:26:37 +0000

To hell with raising taxes.

Get some Linux guys to replace the Microsoft software that is installed on 10′s of thousands of state computers. It would save millions each year in licensing fees. There is plenty of open source software that will do the same thing as M$ software for 0 dollars.

By: StrugglingStateWorker

StrugglingStateWorker — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:10:34 +0000

I’m a single parent and work hard daily for the state – without a decent raise in years. I struggle. Now I may not make my mortgage over this fiscal crisis and be furloughed? (I LIVE CHECK TO CHECK! Its not poor planning either.) HELP LEGISLATORS!!! Why am I furloughed when the state retirees are untouchabled? How about the “double dippers” who already have a pension? Non-merits make way more than I do. Please don’t put my kids and I in more crisis, over the fiscal state crisis. Raise taxes or hike the cigarette tax. These are real people’s lives here.

By: LouLex

LouLex — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:41:58 +0000

Good, shut the government down. All of it.