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thisisnuts

What I don't care for are the taxpayers having to pay for his "paid administrative leave" when he should be using his annual or sick time for the 4 weeks that he as been out of the office!

People say that the "government fleeces the taxpayer" or "the public worker doesn't deserve their jobs and their pay" just about every day. What else do our tax dollars pay for? Every time we buy something, our tax dollars are paying for the people who own the business, the casino owners, who by the way, are far wealthier than the average public employee, and many of your own employers. Just because public workers are employed by state and local governments, does it mean that our tax dollars are going to waste? I admit that their are a number of overpaid administrators that come in and work an hour or two, and the leave to spend their day getting paid. However, when I worked in the private sector I saw the same almost every day. Aren't our tax dollars also going to waste in that situation? Most of the public workers, the rank and file folks, don't deserve to be lumped into the "all public employees are bad" category. Be reasonable as many of these people serve the public, and some not such a great selection of public, every day.