Oh, Those Poor State Employees

They march in the streets.

They rally in statehouses.

They show up on the governor's doorstep.

They are not going to take it anymore.

Life for America's oppressed public employees has become unbearable.

Just ask Susie Giurlani:

Struggling just to get by
Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial

An Associated Press story datelined Carson City last week spelled out the concerns of some legislators that changes to state employee health insurance costs and benefits might be onerous to lower-salaried workers.

To support this concern, there was testimony from a tearful Susie Giurlani. She and her husband are both state employees whose pay has been reduced by mandated furloughs since 2009.

"We are not the rich state employees that some people think we are," she told the joint Assembly Ways and Means and Senate Finance subcommittee.

"I'm punished because I chose to get a job with the state, 30 years ago, believing that I'd have reasonable health coverage," AP quoted her as saying through tears, adding she's "having a harder time in my life than when I was single."

On the Nevada Policy Research Institute website called TransparentNevada, her 2009 pay is listed as $70,213.02 and his as $93,689.45. [link]

Oh, and this is worth mentioning. The average annual wage of those paying this couple $163,902 a year? $41,464.

Oh, and this is worth mentioning too: There are 13,900,000 Americans with no paychecks at all coming in right now, all of whom would love to have her awful, awful job with no questions asked.

March.  Rally.  Whine.  We don't care.  We can no longer afford to keep you in the lifestyle to which you have become accustomed.

Hat tip to James Taranto.