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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
That's why I think it's stupid and wrong. It's not like he's saving the state any money in the end. He's instead pulling the rug out from under people - with no notice - just to prove a point. Those people have families and budgets of their own, and he just gave all of them the finger because he's upset with one group of people. How does this help get the budget done?
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It makes the union put pressure on the legislators to stop fighting and sign the damn budget. I think it's interesting that they actually have a provision that lets the employees get paid at all without a budget since it was more of an automatic thing here than the governor making a point.
Hopefully the union will help the workers (and I'm assuming that the state workers are unionized her but that's been my experience.) I think it sucks that they're the ones who get hurt in the process, but it's probably more effective than anything else.