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Plain Talk: Walker aims to make state workers pay

If you?re a state employee, just how bad are these next few years going to be? It appears they might be not only bad, but certifiably terrible.

Gov.-elect Scott Walker and the horde of Republicans who will shortly take over the state Legislature have made it crystal clear that they?re expecting government workers to pay a major price for the mess that governors, legislators and the captains of the financial industry have created over the past several years. And if that means dismantling the public employee unions, so be it.