[2ndDivisionVet]

Iowa, about halfway up the pay scale. Now in Illinois, California, New York or Maryland your statement would be very spot-on. The poor saps in New Mexico and Mississippi make just above minimum wage and many qualify for food stamps themselves!

[skeeter]

Sorry about the sweeping generalization. But here in CA we're up to our chins in stories of retired state workers pulling down 6 figure retirement pensions, many while working as consultants for the same government they retired from.

At one time in my life (because of an in-law) I was very well acquainted with how eager the welfare bureaucracy here was to throw tax money at anyone enterprising enough to step up to the window.

If only enough people knew what is going on.