when every city, county, state and federal agency sees fit to be overly generous with their pay and benefits with their employees, including relatively huge pensions and medical payments, how can any money be left for parks, zoos, roads, bridges, etc....
throw in the fact that SS and social programs are taking more and more.....
THERE IS NO MONEY FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT LINING THE POCKETS OF CIVIL SERVANTS, right or wrong....
so let's stop our bitchin' because we know the problem of the bottomless pit of pensions and medical retirements.....
just look at pie charts of where our taxes go.....the problem is so evident....
“we know the problem of the bottomless pit of pensions and medical retirements.....”
The elephant in the room will never be acknowledged. A friend employed by the government is sporting a new bypass valve job -free - courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer. And he believes that the high gas prices are a conspiracy by Bush and big oil.
Yet when I suggest we cut his pay down to $5.75 an hour, for the children and the Marxist common good, he goes ballistic.