Bloated State Payroll Insult To Taxpayers

Why the INCREASE in politically appointed, higher paying jobs in Louisiana? Why the DECREASE in lower paying state jobs? Why is Louisiana, per capita, number 1 in State employees in the South and number 8 in the Country? The answer is because we historically have incompetent, self-serving bureaucrats running the State. The proof comes from the State Civil Service Department, showing politically appointed jobs pay about 20-thousand dollars more per year. The State has over 61-thousand classified Civil Service employees, 5-thousand fewer than 2002 with an average salary of $41-thousand dollars. There are 31,427 Politically appointed jobs now with an average salary of $60,854, that's 57-hundred more than in 2002.
Meanwhile the State is facing a Billion dollar shortfall come July of next year. How confident do you feel about your State Government?