First she decided to stop funding the "Public Employees Retirement System" despite the state's obligation to do so. It pays the retirement benefits for past and current state and public employees. Then when her spending when out of control, she decided to just steal the money already in the PERS to pay for her budget. It was illegal, but she got away with it and when she left office the money was never replaced. Then finally she came up with the brainstorm to try and fire thousands of state union employees under contract, and replace them with cheap, non-union labor. Fortunately, a judge put an end to that scheme before she could do it.