tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111449885694140250.post6142092132513030414..comments2023-07-30T03:08:31.149-05:00Comments on Cottonmouth: Republicans Sure Would Hate Cuts They SupportedMatt Eichelbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03518932804450447938noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6111449885694140250.post-50638451942482066522015-07-10T11:46:08.301-05:002015-07-10T11:46:08.301-05:00I think I'd change your tag line to be "Y...I think I'd change your tag line to be "You can either be a Republican or fund government agencies to do their job - but you cannot do both."<br /><br />I don't think the legislature, governor or the people of this state realize just how close their government agencies are to total collapse. When you have as many state workers that are as underpaid, and close to retirement as MS has, you are on a knife's edge. When those senior workers quit, the people behind them are mostly VERY inexperience and incredibly underpaid. Every agency in order to maintain the years of budge cuts thrown at them, have done so by simply NOT hiring replacements to those that leave. They consolidate groups under one supervisor instead of promoting when a supervisory position comes open. Doing this means you DO NOT have anyone behind the current supervisors ready to step into leadership roles. New hires DO NOT STAY if they are competent, because they can almost double their pay elsewhere. Five years from now I fully expect to see story after story about how state government 'failed'. Why? Because you can't ask someone to be SEVERELY underpaid, while doing 3-4 jobs that they've never been trained to do. When it all falls apart it's going to be VERY expensive to fix.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com