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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 342729" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Our state economy has gone right down the toilet! The State employees here (of which I am one!) have already taken several HUGE hits and there will be more. We haven't had a raise in four years and our insurance has gone up every year so we actually have a lot less to get by on now than we had several years ago. We have several thousand fewer State employees than we did just a few years ago, thanks to 'buy-outs'. Then they proposed a series of 'furloughs' but turned it down in favor of permanently laying off about 1,000 more people. Then separately, they had another 500+ 'buy-outs' to people in Higher Education, the university system, which means bigger classes and more tuition increases. The Dept. of Childrens Services and Mental Health have also lost <em>hundreds</em> of positions which is really scary. And we have a system for medical care for the 'low income' people (TennCare) that is so full of fraud and abuse of the system that it siphons off a HUGE percentage of the state's funds and will bankrupt the state if something drastic isn't done soon. </p><p> </p><p>We have no State income tax here, only sales tax revenue, so in a recession that's not good. Nobody who favored a state income tax would ever get elected but then they complain when services are reduced! But we also see so much <em>waste</em>! Every department keeps adding more and more layers of highly paid management on the upper levels while the poor little schlunks like me (the ones who actually do the work!) get by on less and less every year.</p><p> </p><p>But in the middle of all this financial chaos and people losing their jobs ... we have the "BUNKER"! That's what it has been christened! In the midst of all this, our beloved governor has decided to build a lavish, extravagant underground party facility UNDER the Governors Mansion so all the politicians would have this big palace-like facility to entertain their wealthier campaign contributors in the style they are accustomed to! Only the best for the 'party bunker'! So while people are losing their jobs and there aren't enough caseworkers to investigate child abuse cases and mental health care gets worse and worse, they are literally pouring millions and millions of dollars into <u>A HOLE IN THE GROUND!!!</u> I just keep repeating to myself, "Just two more years and you can retire ... just TWO more years!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 342729, member: 1883"] Our state economy has gone right down the toilet! The State employees here (of which I am one!) have already taken several HUGE hits and there will be more. We haven't had a raise in four years and our insurance has gone up every year so we actually have a lot less to get by on now than we had several years ago. We have several thousand fewer State employees than we did just a few years ago, thanks to 'buy-outs'. Then they proposed a series of 'furloughs' but turned it down in favor of permanently laying off about 1,000 more people. Then separately, they had another 500+ 'buy-outs' to people in Higher Education, the university system, which means bigger classes and more tuition increases. The Dept. of Childrens Services and Mental Health have also lost [I]hundreds[/I] of positions which is really scary. And we have a system for medical care for the 'low income' people (TennCare) that is so full of fraud and abuse of the system that it siphons off a HUGE percentage of the state's funds and will bankrupt the state if something drastic isn't done soon. We have no State income tax here, only sales tax revenue, so in a recession that's not good. Nobody who favored a state income tax would ever get elected but then they complain when services are reduced! But we also see so much [I]waste[/I]! Every department keeps adding more and more layers of highly paid management on the upper levels while the poor little schlunks like me (the ones who actually do the work!) get by on less and less every year. But in the middle of all this financial chaos and people losing their jobs ... we have the "BUNKER"! That's what it has been christened! In the midst of all this, our beloved governor has decided to build a lavish, extravagant underground party facility UNDER the Governors Mansion so all the politicians would have this big palace-like facility to entertain their wealthier campaign contributors in the style they are accustomed to! Only the best for the 'party bunker'! So while people are losing their jobs and there aren't enough caseworkers to investigate child abuse cases and mental health care gets worse and worse, they are literally pouring millions and millions of dollars into [U]A HOLE IN THE GROUND!!![/U] I just keep repeating to myself, "Just two more years and you can retire ... just TWO more years!" [/QUOTE]
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