I always thought essential staff was retained. Why aren’t the secretaries, administrative staff, and people who push pencil all day not getting layed off.

Seems like this is backwards as usual.

With all these people being laid off how is it possible that the shutdown costs the state money? Seems like a good way to save money.

No Sam, you just need to read the article~

The union they belong to requires a layof notice be given a number of days prior to or an assumed State shutdown. It appears pencil pushers may be more essential than you!

As always we include law enforcemnet officers in the ones mentioned. It should not single out one area with direct mention and include another 35000 as a general area. Report everything not part of something.

They’re the only ones who will notice. We should layoff the people who write the welfare checks. That would be serious progress.

Wonder how much $$ we would save if they laid off people like Franken and Dayton??

People – reread the article. Just THIS union needs notice by a certain date. Others will get lay off notices as well, just not 30 days notice. Then it does state the troopers most likely will not get laid off as they can be deemed essential.

How about Gov. Dayton get taxed on all his money he hides in South Dakota. Bet he wouldn’t want to raise taxes on the rich and the budget would get solved.

Because they’d be laid-off, their contracts require them to be paid the vacation and sick time they’ve earned and six months of health insurance from the state.
The tab on that is estimated at between $200-$300 million. That’s all of the state “laid off” employees. Not to mention the cost and over time to start things back up and to get caught up.

I wonder how many of the top two percent of wage earners in Minnesota are expecting lay off notices?

Thats how the Dems create jobs….

Good job Dayton, way to work together. FAIL!
Housing market way down, a shut down looming…

Start buying commodities again…

I’ll say it again….

MN does not have a tax problem….
Mn has a SPENDING problem!

Tough to say we have a tax problem when we are one of the highest taxed states in the US!

REFORM over Taxation!

MN workers…you have no one except Dayton and yourselves to blame….

Why Repo…..to send them thank you notes? Or like a typical DFL’er throw Human DooDoo at their houses?

“Shut it Down!” … “Shut it Down”… “Shut it Down” … the people have spoken!
Mn has a SPENDING problem! Mn has a SPENDING problem! Mn has a SPENDING problem!

Government shutdowns don’t save the government money. On the contrary, they’re pricey. For example, after 10 days, state workers are eligible for layoff pay. Many will burn vacation time to keep a paycheck coming in, but even then they don’t see the cash right away. They won’t actually get it until the budget is passed. But it will cost the state about $2 million a day. And the cost of preparing for a shutdown is considerable, even if the state doesn’t go toes up. In 2001, it cost $2.7 million, even though the state didn’t shut down.

Why not send them to Daytons places of residence too? It takes two to negotiate and Dayton failed at least as much as the GOP Legislature.

Dayton and all the dems.. Let’s raise taxes 10% across the board on everyone and let the spening begin. Pary time!

Lets lay off all state employees. Cops, guards everyone. Let the prisoners out of jail and tell them they have to report back if and when there is a budget. Oh and yes all crimes related to the shutdown can be recovered by suing the elected for not doing thier job. Bet you next year there would not be a “special Session”.

Lay’m all off and everybody promise to be nice for a year. Budget solved.

Oh come on liberal, I thought liberals were so much better than everyone else. You sound enraged. Seek therapy.

Find out where they live so they can what? Threaten them? This sounds like a threat and a criminal one too.

Let’s do away with the politicians running this state and this country and let working class people, like accountants, auditors and businessmen take over. The ONLY people who should be “laid off” are the politicians who WON’T balance the budget; better yet, they shouldn’t receive a paycheck until they do.

I am a state employee, who will get laid off if there is no budget settlement. That being said how much more debt can we accumulate? The out of control spending needs to stop now. Raising taxes is NOT the answer. Spending cuts are hard decisions, but need to be made. Time for all the free money to stop being handed out.
Our legislatures have been in St. Paul since January and still couldn’t get the job of a budget done. Time to throw the whole works out and put people in who can get the job done – Dem – Rep – or whomever.

Sorry guys, but welcome to the real world. When the dollars aren’t coming in the tax payers get layed off. However, funny how they make a big noise about laying off Police, Firemen, Medical people, but don’t mention the MinDot People or the clerks, lawyers and etc. They want to scare people by only mentioning the very last people they will actually lay off. Maybe Dayton had better rethink his strategy of forcing a Government Shut down. If people see how well the Government can run with fewer people, the voters will ask why we have so many to begin with.

They should lay off the Hennepin county social workers the money they spend to fight parents in the court system just so they have jobs for their friends. The fraud in that system alone cost the tax payers millions of dollars a year. As they put it the ” best intrest of the child” The fraud in their “foster care program” runs the state even more money. Hennepin county will spend what ever it takes just to keep their little privite game run. Even threats, bribles, lies. ect.