text: Exactly! I'm sick and tired of reading ill informed, negative comments from people who bash state workers. They didn't create this mess and people want to punish them. If they think it is so great and wonderful to work for the state with pers tier 4 retirement than apply and get a state job! It's not a private club, anyone can apply for jobs for the state. I know the cuts are real. These same bashers complaining about state employee wages and benefits are the same ones complaining that their highways aren't plowed quick enough. Kinda hard to do a good job when your man power has been reduced along with your budgets.