The Nightmare on State Street-Budget 2009

The state workers are not the problem. They took these jobs for the benefits and lower pay over the years so that the state could get people to take the state jobs and they could have benefits to balance the lower wages. Now the private sector has come back to the public sector under the Republicans who have destroyed workers in this country and it's the public sector workers who should give everything they have earned over the years back. They didn't create the problem; politicians like Christine Todd Whitman and her 30% tax cut that I'm sure most people who post here voted for created this problem. She put off paying the bill until now, and the bill has come due during Corzine's term, didn't you all expect the bill to come due some time in the future? The fix is not to take away from other people, it is to spread the pain and not single out a very small part of the budget, state workers (They are only 10% to 15% of the budget.) I agree with Carla, layoffs won't balance the budget by a long shot and taking away from anybody as the Republicans have done for the past seven years isn't the answer either, as the looming recession can tell any of you. The answer is spreading the pain evenly, toll increases, gas tax, cut back on spending, etc., etc. If we all chip in, we can get out of this hole and not by trying to squeeze blood out of the state workers. Foolishly picking on state workers won't solve the states ills, it will only make others feel better by taking away what others have and not actually solve the crisis we have in the budget. Carla's on the right track, the rest just have envy and are jealous of others.

So he used to like union employees who deliever services.  He threw them under the bus for his political appointees like Jeanne Fox.  The moron Governor wants to fire rank and file but reappoint the worst manager state government has ever seen.  Secret bank accounts... hiring Golan's aids, McGreevey's leftovers, and failed legislative candidates... drawing criminal investigations thorugh mismanagement and a whistleblower suit.  Carla is right on this one... Corzine needs to fire his p.r. people, legislative liaisons and $550 lawyers and he needs to get real by starting with Jeanne Fox... the biggest joke of a public employee in 200 years.    Just like Wall Street... turn on people once you have used them.

You and the unions are a huge part of the problems in this state.  The union does nothing but terrorize the state every time we want to make changes and I'm tired of it.  I have no respect for your mob anymore so stop trying to play this "poor us" card - It's played out.

I'm done paying for benefits to your clan that I don't come close to getting in the private sector.  I'm done paying for your group and getting nothing but heartache in return.  I'm done paying..... you will not get another dime, not another nickel, not another penny from me if I can help it!  Take your cuts and get off the backs or our good citizens and get out of our pockets!! 

And not to worry Ms. Katz because your group won't be alone, the citizens of this state will be directing the sword at the sacred pay to play culture, the no bid contracts (the names Ashcroft and Christie make my blood boil) and those coveted patronage jobs. 

Hell hath no fury as a NJ citizens scorned!  It’s time for the citizens of this state to demand initiatives and referendums to protect ourselves and our children’s future from the environment of greed you and your cronies keep pushing.

I for one will not stop applying the pressure to Corzine until we get a 10% cut across the board, and not this joke he is calling a budget proposal!!

There is a huge differnece between the Point of Service State Worker and the politically connected Bureaucrat who does little but gets paid a lot. The public has a right ot be upset, but place your anger , not where Corzine tells you ot place it , but place it where it belongs .

All cuts should be from the Top down, not from the bottom up.

The Governors office shoudl go through every Department and demand to see the Organizational chart. Then he needs to put the yearly salary next to the persons name.

For every 2 DMV workers you meet in line , and by the way actually DO THE WORK THAT GETS YOU IN AND OUT , there is a highly paid supervisor . Get rid of the supervisor hire one more Pointo f Service worker and you still save money!

All Taxpayers need to be angry , but don't be angry at the Point of Service worker. Reread what Carla Katz has to say , it makes sense.

I must agree with Katz and her idea thatwe need to look at the " other' people in state government who work under the radar , but have a big effect on the " bottom line".

If cutbacks are necessary , then cutbacks must happen. However the proper thing ot do would be to investigate wherethe " big" money is being spent and see if it is being spent wisely.

The Point of Service worker is the last person who should be let go because he/she is the person who actually works for the taxpayer.

I agree we ARE top heavy and bloated.  Let's stop paying pensions to part time workers – actually lets release all part time and temp workers and allow some of the regular workers to stay and pick up the slack.  We need to renegotiate contracts to match the private sector and HAVE Ms. Katz look at the people SHE added to the top heavy patronage problem and FIRE THEM!!  This citizen believes she’s a political game player and she has her share of dirt on her hands.

I am so angry I can’t tell you and I won’t rest until I can help bring down this house of cards.  I am one of the MAJORITY Independent voters in this state and I want to see us finally unite and throw off the chains of this one party corrupt state! 

I smell a recall attempt in the air and if you start hearing a whisper from the citizens of this state calling for one, step in and make it a roar so loud that these criminal’s will hear it from Hopatong to Cape May.

They think they bound us with the law they wrote to prevent us from attempting a recall, but let’s prove them wrong.

only the people who were planning on retiring will be let go and they'll still be tons of extra workers.  There ARE too many state workers, you see the abuses everywhere.  Yes most of state government workers are hard working blah blah but then again there's that 10% who barely look up when you need to ask a question and they are civil servents and can't be moved. Government is too bloated, we have too many layers, i.e. county government and two many municiaplities with too may fire, police and everything else.  You'll have a 2 square mile town with 20 police, 10 fire and 15 administrators. WHY????????All these folks have PENSIONS to boot. This is too costly.  Everybody pinches pennies except the unions.  

Despite being well intentioned, Lonegan uses scare tactics and lies to advance his radical agenda.

Remember this fall when he tried to defeat Public Question #3 for open space funding claiming that your house would be torn down and taken from you using eminent domain.

Yikes! Eminent domain has NEVER and will NEVER be used for state park and open space acquisition by the state.

Lonegan just doesn't pass the straight face test.

What must the rest country think of us if they ever read some of these derranged comments. To actually try and blame Christy Whitman for the mess were in and then to add insult give examples of how to further increase tolls and taxes is just beyond belief! There are people locked up in insane asylums who are more in touch with reality those NJ IDIOTS! How can we completely overlook the waste and corruption of Democratic total rule over the state for at least 40 years! When are we ever going to leave OZ and finally realize it's that rule.....those favors.....their mismanagement that is to blame.....not us! NO I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN OPERATIVE! But hell if there's no viable Independent party let's form one immediately! If not then swallow your (whatever it is you are chewing politically) and vote all the Dems out and let the other party take over. They can't possibly do worse. At least they lag behind in the political scandal score. But no we will AGAIN vove in another Lautenburg, another Corzine, another Torricelli, another McGreevy, another Menedez, Florio.....oh please.....I think I'm gonna be sick! You people are killing us with your distorted view that only Democrats are worthy. NJ WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO WAKE YOU UP.....THE DEMS ARE WHAT'S WRONG.....THERE CAN BE NO OTHER VIABLE EXPLANATION!

There is an active recall campaign underway against Governor Corzine.

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Carla Katz is a slut.