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Sounds like she means well but a progressive? Really? I think we need a whole lotta "practical", no more from the ends of the spectrum. We need to continue to drive down the labor costs. Not to slash the pay either, just bring it a little more in line with market labor costs. We need to think about $80,000 school teachers who get ten weeks off and a 1.1 MILLION pension for each and every teacher when private schools staff classrooms for 40k or so and a 401k savings retirement! No more "disability pensions" once the recipient is doing well in other jobs. Disability should JUST be until the employee replaces the income, in any field. No more returning THIEVES to work like at DPW with back pay. You steal once, you're OUT just like at the private companies most of us work for, and where we get the money to pay for these shenanigans. We need REAL ethics reform and separation of powers. This toothless "ethics commission" is a JOKE and should be disbanded, I mean, why even pretend? HOWEVER, I believe in union representation of public workers, fair (but not excessive) pay and benefits, and real checks and balances to end unethical activities by government at all levels. Avedisian is a good example of a middle of the road approach and he avoids the far extremes which is the one thing that brings progress to a standstill. We need to change the political attitude to one of "lets get RI fixed" and that may mean hard choices. Pension reform was helpful, but isnt enough to get the cost of government down so as to stimulate jobs. We need to keep chipping away at govt costs until we have fair pay, fair process, and more efficiency. And there will still be plenty of crony opportunity for our electeds, even the cleanest states have plenty! RI is in or near LAST PLACE in many categories, for a reason. We need moderate types to adjust that. The republicans seem too interested in values that RI is not interested in. We dont want small govt, we want better govt, at a cost that we can afford. Could that really be so hard to achieve? We're already doing some things in that direction anyway.

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