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Santa Clara County fire chief, retiring but not leaving, will draw both salary and pension
mercurynews.com ^
| 12/27/2010
| Karen de Sá
Posted on 12/28/2010 3:28:47 PM PST by artichokegrower
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And people wonder why California is going bankrupt. Maybe $436,691 is a little excessive for a fireman. Maybe it would be nice to retire at 57. Maybe people will wise up.
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:32:24 PM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: artichokegrower
Wonder why California is broke? Here’s why!
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:33:10 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
To: artichokegrower
That’s what the president of our local college did. It appears to be SOP for professionals who can get away with it.
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:33:14 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: artichokegrower
Publice employees are the aristocracy of California. We work for them.
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:33:36 PM PST
by
forgotten man
(forgotten man)
To: artichokegrower
Must be nice.
I think I missed the boat.
I should have concentrated on being some sort of public "servant".
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:34:50 PM PST
by
elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: artichokegrower
Even if the law allows for it, you’d think the guy would have a little more discretion than this.
To: artichokegrower
Just let government go bankrupt.
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:35:55 PM PST
by
GeronL
(#7 top poster at CC, friend to all, nicest guy ever, +96/-14, ignored by 1 sockpuppet.. oh & BANNED)
To: WOBBLY BOB
“where do you grown artichokes?”
Marina, Moss Landing, Castroville, and Salinas. Nice area other than the gang bangers.
To: artichokegrower
Set aside the excessive salary, for a moment. It appears that the retired Chief is entitled to the pension money — regardless of whether or not he's working. He will be working, and getting paid for that too. So what? If he didn't do the job, someone else would have been hired to do it. Similarly, if the retired Chief worked elsewhere, he'd be paid for that (regardless of whether or not he collected his pension).
This isn't “double-dipping”. He has two crackers. He's dipping them each into different bowls.
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
No he is dipping into the same bowl. The taxpayers bowl. So you are fine with the fire chief of a moderate sized city making more than the governor of the state? You are fine with a public servants pension being larger than the salary made by 99% of those in California’s private sector? You are fine with adding on to this a lifetime medical benefit? You are fine with $500 billion in unfunded public employee pension obligations in California? Tell you what I’m not fine with raising my taxes anymore to pay for all of this.
To: artichokegrower
What would a fire chief consultant do that garners that big of a pay scale?
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:47:17 PM PST
by
libertarian27
(Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
What part of broke do you not get?
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:49:15 PM PST
by
GlockThe Vote
(Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Ummm...don’t you think they can hire an “up and comer” for a tad less than $1/4million per year? Are you freaking kidding me??
He built this job up all these years with mandatory raises. Its time to tear it back down. Fire Chief of the WORLD doesn’t deserve $250K/year. Sorry.
And here’s the problem...they CAN’T hire someone for $100K (which the job is worth) because he’d probably be the least paid guy in the firehouse.
Hmmm...
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:49:47 PM PST
by
FlJoePa
("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
To: artichokegrower
For nearly half a million dollars a year this guy better be one hell of a fireman.
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:50:25 PM PST
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: artichokegrower
I thought the unspoken rule of management was to submit a letter of resignation for the file and groom a replacement.
To: artichokegrower
You and I have FReemailed before. I can’t remember what variety you grow. We want to put in some winter ‘chokes, but I don’t know who sells them around here (Aptos).
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:54:10 PM PST
by
EggsAckley
( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply!)
To: artichokegrower
Who does he think he is?
A Cardiologist???
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:54:21 PM PST
by
utax
To: artichokegrower
Maybe $436,691 is a little excessive for a fireman
Government employees are literally gang raping the private sector tax payers.
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:56:13 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit.)
To: artichokegrower
Ping me when the FreeRepublic big-gov supporters show up, as they desperately try to convince all, fire department employees, and cops are worth the big dollars.
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posted on
12/28/2010 3:59:40 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit.)
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