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State Employee Org Tells Governor To Look Elsewhere For His Budget Cuts

By Kleinheider Posted on November 9, 2009 at 1:21 pm

From the TSEA:

“Who will provide services to the citizens across the state,” said Almous Austin, acting president of the Tennessee State Employees Association? The Governor announced that layoffs of state employees will be part of the budget cuts coming for 2010, even though employee salaries and benefits are less than one percent of the state budget, “It is time for the Governor and the legislature to look at the other ninety-nine percent of the budget for cuts,” continued Austin.

UPDATE: State says group miscalculates.

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4 Responses to “State Employee Org Tells Governor To Look Elsewhere For His Budget Cuts”

  1. Andy2012 writes
    November 9th, 2009 1:48 pm

    Who will be TSEA’s next Executive Director?

  2. TNVoluneer73 writes
    November 9th, 2009 1:57 pm

    Governor Bredesen accepted Stimulus monies, now he is going to leave the dealing with the increased cost in state revenue to cover the Government’s Unfunded Mandates for the next 10 years up to the next 2 governors.

    2012 is when we stop receiving the Federal Funding, and the Mandate calls for the state to continue funding for the “new Stimulus” programs for an additional 8 years.

  3. Snuffy writes
    November 9th, 2009 3:08 pm

    God forbid that Bredesen ask his buddies at the Chamber to give back their subsidies or freeze their tax increment financing deals while the state goes down the tubes.

    Nope. Gotta make sure that the burden is paid by the people who work for a living, not the ones who inherit all their wealth or get rich using other people’s money.

    That’s a Tennessee Democrat for you. And you wonder why people don’t vote for them anymore.

  4. Danny L. Newton writes
    November 11th, 2009 2:23 am

    One of the reasons that the state is in trouble is because of the poor workmanship in the legislature surrounding the estimates of fiscal costs. The costs often are wrong but worst yet they only contain the current cost, not the ongoing costs in the future. Estimates on TDOT projects are a possible exception. They are often correct for the current year but the true costs are a combination of first cost plus service life costs. An accidental mistake that makes an estimate wrong is random and over thousands of estimates, the pluses and the minuses should mostly cancel out. I don’t see that. The mistakes alsawys seem to favor an underestimate.

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