State Pay Raises & Salary Freezes

[rasman]

I am a little confused about all the current news about recent state employee pay raises vs. the governors call for salary freezes. An article in the Honolulu Advertiser stated that the state legislature just got a 35.7% pay increase, while judges have requested a 10% increase. There was also an article on americancityandcountry.com
which stated that the state was considering making police salaries tax exempt. Am I missing something here or are our "public servants" still just serving themselves even in light of our present economic crisis? Does anyone have any further info on any of this by which they could shed some more light? Have these proposals already gone through?

[roseroo14]

Iwonder it this is some of the change that has been promised?

The Lack

[JerryCarr]

And the teachers' union took a pay raise last year under false pretenses. There's nothing really new here, but it goes on and on. Hmmmm. Maybe this belongs over on the policital forum.

Cheers,
Jerry