[artichokegrower]

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.

[WOBBLY BOB]

http://www.pensiontsunami.com/public.php

where do you grown artichokes?

[SandRat]

Wonder why California is broke? Here’s why!

[skr]

That’s what the president of our local college did. It appears to be SOP for professionals who can get away with it.

[forgotten man]

Publice employees are the aristocracy of California. We work for them.

[elkfersupper]

Must be nice.

I think I missed the boat.

I should have concentrated on being some sort of public "servant".

[johniegrad]

Even if the law allows for it, you’d think the guy would have a little more discretion than this.

[GeronL]

Just let government go bankrupt.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

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.

[libertarian27]

What would a fire chief consultant do that garners that big of a pay scale?

[pnh102]

For nearly half a million dollars a year this guy better be one hell of a fireman.

[sasquatch]

I thought the unspoken rule of management was to submit a letter of resignation for the file and groom a replacement.

[utax]

Who does he think he is?

A Cardiologist???

[dragnet2]

Maybe $436,691 is a little excessive for a fireman

Government employees are literally gang raping the private sector tax payers.

[dragnet2]

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.

[SC_Pete]

Public sector unions must be abolished nationwide. They fund communism, blow government budgets, and corrupt the [political process. Without the public sector, the union movement would have died out in the United States. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!!!

[mewykwistmas]

“And people wonder why California is going bankrupt”

You will be bailing them out, don’t worry. They’re too big to fail, dontcha know?

$200K pension for a fireman? No wonder children want to be to be firemen when they grow up.

[businessprofessor]

Defined benefit pensions were never designed for individuals with the ability to accelerate salary growth. They were designed for low wage workers with small, predicatable salary increases. Even with this class of workers, defined benefit pensions do not work with the discount rates promoted by pension agencies. I have seen incredible pension abuse in my data sets. The taxpayer has been raped by a vicious principal-agent problem in which the interests of the agent (politicians, public employee management, and pension agencies) are diametrically opposed to the taxpayer.

[Riodacat]

I think it's time we drop the "servant" part of the term "public servant".
It's the workers in the private sector who are really the servants these days.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

And yet the voters in CA voted the biggest spending of the big spending Dems back into office. All I have to say is Thank God I don’t live in this corrupt, cesspool of a state. Its beyond redemption.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“Maybe people will wise up.”

Maybe people will RISE up!