How about the legislators start with themselves?  I'm not against pay freezes, but for gods sake, the legislators and their staff make tax free per diem the entire time they are in session that is exorbitant enough to pay two mortgages, food, utilities, and a little money left over WITHOUT touching their actual pay!  Doesn't it seem like this would be a better place to start making cuts than the lives of regular people like you and I who go to work and actually perform a service for the public?