Why don't we hire illegal aliens to run the State, and that includes the House and Senate. This would eliminate all benefits, lower pay to a really tolerable level, and provide us with a more fair and impartial legilature.
State Employee's have stepped up and taken their fair share of hits already. We have been working in an understaffed, underfunded, and way underappreciated environment ever since Engler sailed glibly off into the sunset on a raft made up of the States Rainy Day Fund. Get Real.