Re-read the three bullet points in the reply you replied to.  Go ahead, I'll wait.

Now, given that workers in the state's private sector are taking twenty-five percent cuts (that's 25%) in not only pay, but also hours and benefits, I would think that a mere 3 to 10 percent cut in pay only would not be too much to ask of the state's government sector.

The core of my beef is that six groups of people (the disabled, prisoners, the unemployed, state troopers, and poverty-families . . . in addition to Veterans) that the state should be providing funding for are being cut for no other reason than to justify a tax hike.  It's not that the programs I want funded are being cut, it's that these cuts are happening at all.

If the state had already cut all of the waste out of the budget, then I'd have no real issue with the cuts specified in EO 2009-22.  But just those three bullet points alone establish that such is not the case.  However, the liberal-statist political class has historically never touched the lower-hanging fruit on the budget tree.