   The good news is their wages will supposedly be adjusted when
the budget is passed. The bad news is since you need a two-
thirds majority from the Legislature to "take a bathroom break,"
as the Democratic Party chair put it, that probably won't happen
anytime soon.  Given Michigan's budget woes, I'm surprised this
hasn't been proposed already. One gubernatorial candidate,
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, wants a law to reduce
public employee wages and benefits so they're comparable to the
private sector. Maybe we can kick that idea up a notch.  One
problem with this idea? Public employees tend to be more
educated than their private sector counterparts, when you
average all the McDonald's fry cooks and the MDs. Education
often means better compensation or most people would drop out as
soon as they get their driver's licenses.  But the basic
philosophy of politics is finding simple solutions for
complicated problems, even if they're wrong.