I am watching one of the local political discussion shows. The teachers in Washington State are horrified and outraged that a 3% salary cut for them has been included in the proposed state budget. I heard not one complant when the 3% pay cut was announced for all other state employees (except for the Legislators). In fact they are still a lot of people pushing to increase that cut (increase = cut? Hmm) to, at least 5% cut.