Each New Jerseyan--every man/woman/child--spends $9.33 per month on state-employee salaries. Each Ohioan spends $5.20. Each Tennessean spends $4.69. Each Floridian spends $3.79. I calculated these figures from official 2007 data readily available on the Internet. Similar computations could be done for municipal and county workers, but I strongly suspect that the trends would be the same. Are we New Jerseyans patsies--or what? Unless we believe that our quality of life in the Garden State is compellingly superior to that in Ohio, Tennessee, and Florida (et al), we should demand a dramatic reduction in public-sector workforce expenditures and should consistently, reliably expel all incumbent politicians--this election, next election, every election--until they get the message that we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!