just another reason we need health care reform...dollar for dollar the US does not get equal health care as many other countries and once again, we are asked to pay more and more for less services

....sound of a violin playing..... I'd gladly take a State Job and gladly pay the higher insurance rate. I was laid off and I have no insurance. Just be glad you have a job and stop whining about it. How often does your insurance rates go up? When I did have a job my insurance raised every year. No cost of living adjustment in 2 whole years? Well in the 24 years that I worked I never got a cost of living (COLA) increase. Pay the increase in your insurance and just pray you don't get laid off as I did.

Representative,

Well-done input comment!

No wonder, Our entire Government System emptied our hard-working taxpayers' retirement plan saving account and put the elderly people into nursing home with no hope future insurance for their grandkids or next.

Like I said before: Hail to the Chief!

Representative,

Well-done input comment!

No wonder, Our entire Government System emptied our hard-working taxpayers' retirement plan saving account and put the elderly people into nursing home with no hope future insurance for their grandkids or next.

Like I said before: Hail to the Chief!

Low pay, high insurance rates, and a governor who does not value state workers. The state worker, who may I remind the audience, serves the public has been written off as dispensable by the current administration.

Here are the facts: State workers have not been provided any type of raise to allow for cost of living (COLA) in two years while the cost of living has increased by nearly 10% as an average in the state. The cost of PEIA insurace has increased twice (by about 5%) in this same time period; thus the state worker has effectively lost no less than 15% of their income. That is right lost income during a time when good wages are crucial to our future as a state.

This type of bullying and prejudicial treatment will not continue. Remember "Montani Semper Liberi" is our state moto, this type of behavior is is no way representative of the moto.

I leave you with one final thought, if it were not for the public servant (state worker); the public would be without health care services, child protective services, law enforcement, education, roadway maintenance, and many other vital services.

Do the governor and our legislators need a firm reminder of this?

Perhaps state employees should stage a comprehensive strike. When all reasonable discussion fails, an individual will fight for what is just and fair; or they will leave. The latter option, perpetuates a continued state of stagnant progress in our beloved state. West Virginia is unable to maintain our best and brightest, for this we all suffer the consequences.

Hail to the Chief!