Posted on 07/08/2014 5:05:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
Successful parasites are those that have learned to not take so much from the host that the host dies or sickens to the extent that nourishment for the parasites is constrained.
Many government parasites have ignored this reality and have overloaded the host with too many parasites and taken too much nourishment from the host. Consequently the host dies or sickens to such an extent that nourishment to the parasites is limited.
Such is the case with Detroit today. And that “sick host” condition will be coming to a city and/or state near you soon. And, eventually, to the federal government and its employees and contractors also.
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Detroit was run by communists, specifically Mayor Coleman Young (id. CPUSA for decades), and CPUSA supporters (City Councilwomen and then Chairwomen), Maryanne Mahaffey and Erma Henderson.
Both women later joined the marxist Democratis Socialists of America when the CP started its decline in the 80’s.
Other Detroit City Council members also had significant ties to the CPUSA and the DSA.
In 1975, Sen. Carl Levin (d-Mich), then head of the city council, gave the key to the city to a KGB-controlled “World Peace Council” delegation headed by Indian Communist Party leader Romesh Chandra. Photos available in the WPC’s booklet on this event and possibly in Trevor Loudon’s 2013 book, “The Enemies Within: Communists, Marxists and Socialists in the US Congress”, www.pacificfreedomfoundation.org.
The UAW was, for decades, run by the CPUSA and then by the Reuther Brothers who were associated with the Socialist Party and/or the Democratic Socialists. Walter Reuther was identified as a member of the CPUSA in internal reports to the FBI in the 1930’s. He later broke with them in the late 40’s and fought them for control of the UAW.
Rep. John Conyers Jr (D-Mich) was a member of a CPUSA Local, 600 as was he father, who later when with the Reuther faction.
Just a little history to give the main story some context.
Far too many cops and firemen earning in excess of $100,000 a year in pension checks, way beyond what is necessary to support yourself in retirement. There are lots of classifications getting $100,000 to $500,000 pensions - that's what should be cut. A lot of pensioners are living off pensions first received decades ago that are tiny compared to what is doled out now - leave them alone, it's hard living on $15,000 to $20,000 a year. Go after the big earners who sometimes receive more in retirement than what their standard salary was.
They destroy rights when they have cop badge priviledges, and when they retire and have no priviledge, they whine they do not have rights and are kicked like old whores to the curb.
why do i not feel sorry.It is what they signed up for and promoted their entire careers in crime.
Teachers? At least by me they take their 3 highest years...
Quite a Very Good idea!
Well, you’re right of course. Politicians are nearly all LAWYERS, not accountants. Why anyone would trust a lawyer to run anything is beyond me. They’re a necessary evil sometimes if one needs legal advice, but as far as running a business, I’d sooner trust someone picked at random off the streets.
Every time I hear stories like this I remember Margaret Thatcher’s words of wisdom about socialists running out of other people’s money.
95.5% of a pension is better than no pension at all.
Besides, who in TF retires after 20-25years of work, at 80-90% of their highest wage earned in a year or the top three highest years?
Nobody before work date starting 1980. Now it is 1 percent a year. So you work 20 years, you get 20 percent. You work 50 years, you get 50 precedent. You work 100 years, you get 80 percent....80 percent is the cap, but who on Earth is going to work 80 years or more.
Well when this started. They had to compensate the horrid salaries of government workers and they came up with a better than poor pension to make up for the horrid salaries. It was good until about 1980 and then they chopped the pensions and still paid crap. Today you barely get a pension and the pay is atrocious.
If only those retirees would just pay their fair share.
That someone picked random likely has more acumen; I read once that the Chinese government is made up primarily of men with scientific backgrounds and mindset. It would explain how they pinpoint problems, solve them, and don’t let principles or emotion get in the way of doing what has to be done.
Lawyers are groomed/trained/inclined to argue and debate and prove their point, which means there is no uniform agenda or cooperative mindset. This is why our government is so fractious and increasingly unstable. At least with accountants the numbers would be set up and there wouldn’t be any additional expenditure. The accountant’s mindset is centered on the bottom line and cost effectiveness and we’d likely end up with less government and a lot less waste. We’d also likely end up with better immigrants and a lot less problems with taxation. Until our government is loaded with less lawyers, I am certain that we’ll continue this perpetually conflicted government.
Agreed. And the irony of it all is that the janitor probably worked harder than did the manager.
Yes. I never understood why their wasn't some sort of cap on retirement pay. A maximum of 2/3 of your working pay would seem reasonable.
It's the unions. Police and fire unions are very powerful and exert a lot of influence. Regular workers have caps around 2/3rds of their pay, but police and fire often have a cap hovering near 100 percent. For example, a regular worker would receive a pension based on 2 percent times number of years of permanent employment, attained if retiring at age 60, with a cap around 35 years of employment. 2 times 35 is 70 percent, only if they worked to 60 years of age. If less, they are penalized. Often the penalty is a sliding scale of 1 percent at age 50 to 2 percent at age 60. Retire at age 55, you get 1.5 percent times years so if you worked 35 years you would get around 52 percent of your salary as your pension.
If you're fortunate enough to be a cop, you may get 3 percent times number of years of permanent employment, attained if retiring at age 50, with a cap around 32 years employment. 3 times 32 is 96 percent, for retiring at age 50. On top of that, they're often allowed to boost their salary by including overtime as part of the calculation, while regular workers cannot. So it's possible to get more than 100 percent of regular salary as a pension. The unions make the rules.
If they hold out long enough; Detroit’s failings will vanish in the tsunami of America’s...
OPM is the religion of the sheeple. Heck, I think I’ll make that my new tagline.
OPM is fuel for the FSA.
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