I'm sorry, but somewhere along the line somebody has to say it. Union salaries and benefits have bankrupted the state. There is no more money. Let me repeat, so that the partisian parrots amongst us will hear: There is no more money!! When school administrators can make more than the governor of the state, there IS a problem. When unions are willing to cut loose nearly half of their membership to unemployment in order to retain untenable salaries and benefits for the most senior union members, there IS a problem.
People don't want to hear this, but this is not a fabricated economic crisis, it's a REAL economic crisis. The state cannot print money. There is nothing left to pay for the extravagant union salaries and benefits that have previously been expected. It's not there, people. Protest all you want, you won't put more revenue into an empty state coffer.
So go ahead, play partisian politics. Run away like ******s, then come back raising a fist as if something of substance has been achieved (that will get y'all votes, don't you know, even if it does absolutely nothing to improve the lives of the state population as a whole.). Something today's spoiled population has yet to understand... if there isn't any money, then nobody gets paid, duh. Protest all you want, but unless you pass the hat and get enough to run the state for another year, then talk to the hand, dudes, you clearly don't understand the situation.