Why do these employees need premium benefits, when the rest of the state is suffering, we got mass lay-offs, plants closing,  companies taking their business out of the state as fast as they can?

 Look at the shape this state is in. These public employees need to be on 401k and co-pay for health care. This state is in a depression, raising taxes to pay for premium benefits for state workers. That is just disgusting. People losing jobs and homes at a higher rate than anywhere else in the U.S.

Instead of passing laws to help get the state back on the right track, they are focused on taking more for themselves.