The state does have the money.

• Dave Agema introduced a bill not too long ago to require every state-level elected official to take an immediate 10 percent pay cut.  The Governess signed a bill that makes that pay cut effective in 2011.

• There are somewhere in the immediate vicinity of 37,000 state employees (read: "bureaucrats"); cutting their pay by as little as 3% would save enough money that this executive order would not have been necessary.  But the unions representing those employees refuse to make such a concession.

• Why does Two-Penny's husband have a taxpayer-financed salary in the vicinity of $300,000 annually?