I might be out of touch -- but I just don't think 100K per year is "good money"... I personally think that would put someone right square into the "middle class" and most likely would also require the wife, if any, to work
as well.
I don't mind my public employees being middle class Americans. I have SEVERAL police officers as friends -- I also belong to the Seattle Police Athletic Association... and I can tell you that none of them are above middle class even with overtime. They don't have the hot rods and stuff that "we" do. And if they do - they're building them at home and it take a lot of months or years to complete.
What I'd like to see cut out - is the multiple pensions that many of them stack up! My buddy get's a pension for life for being a Major in the Army - then is stacking up a separate healthy pension from the city... He'll make more in pension than he does working. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT in my opinion. He'll also be able to do all of this while retiring "early".
Regular folks don't work for one place for 20 years - quit - then go work another 20 for someone else and get the pensions these "government service" workers do and that's where it's messed up, and the costs are horrendous!
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