The real disappointment

The most disappointing aspect of Corzine's budget proposal is the lack of cuts among the rank and file of the public employee unions. I guess the cozy relationship between Katz and Corzine is still working to her advantage. Let's face it, for a man that promised to bring a businessman's approach to government, Corzine has failed. A "real" businessman, when faced with the realities that expenditures are larger than revenue, does what they have done since the first caveman sold the first chisel, cut expenses. Where do they cut expenses. Payroll. It's the largest most obvious place to cut. Even in small companies with 5 or 10 people the owner knows that 2 or 3 can go without harming the core business. In desperate times owners cut to the bone, many times operating with minimal staff and working the existing staff harder. Large companies, just recently, have shown the way. Ford announced that it was laying off 10,000 workers and just yesterday GM announced similar plans.

The Governor, in order to be taken seriously by the people in this state, needs to make deep and significant cuts in the size of the state government.