text: All true Jerry69.  It'll be interesting to watch the union bosses bully the state and the legislature to increase headcount, wages and benefits.  The budget is precarious now and will soon be in deficit.  The state pension system is underfunded and is gambling on financial derivatives in a desperate attempt to remain solvent.  When the stock market heads South the pension system will collapse;
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  The next few years will see increased taxes, reduced services and a scramble by the unions to get all they can before the Ponzi scheme collapses.  Watch for a flood of retirements, cashing out before the pension fund is exhausted. 
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  There's trouble in Paradise and it's spelled U.N.I.O.N.S