don't get me wrong - I'm not unhappy at all about public employee salaries - much of my family has been teachers and I taught music. I'm just pointing out that cutting salaries may be the only way to save jobs and cut spending. My friends in the DEC did exactly that 20 yrs ago instead of losing employees. And for the record I am not a knucklehead - I'm a lifelong Alaskan -  I believe in government and have served and worked in it - knucklehead.