Today is the first of what will probably be many furlough days.  The State doesn’t have enough money to run the government and the governor and the legislature can’t agree on a budget.  So, the state workers end up with unpaid days off.

Every few years, we get a pay raise but then we loose it with furlough days.  And, if the furlough days were consecutive, we would be able to draw unemployment but they are not.  So, we get nothing, not even extra vacation days.

Of course, a few years ago, the legislature voted a 34 percent pay raise for themselves.  After all, it is hard to make ends meet when you are a full time legislature that works less than 1,000 hours a year.

Unfortunately, the poor people on unemployment will have to wait until next week to get their money.  Who knows what next years budget will be like?

The motto of state workers is “well, at least I have a job.”