Posted on 05/22/2016 3:12:35 PM PDT by JPJones
In Illinois, and many states, public service has little to do with serving the public and everything to do with using the public’s money to serve politicians. Whenever we open the books, Illinois is consistently among the worst offenders. Recently we found Cook County animal control officers making $105,000; suburban school administrators at $503,000; university doctors earning $1.3 million; and 72 small-town ‘managers’ out-earning every governor of the 50 states.
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Pretty sure I read an article a year or so ago that claimed the top 200 retired Illinois school bureaucrats will cost over a billion in pensions in their lifetime alone. The pensions for educators and the many double dipping educators is far beyond what the state can handle.
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Reminds me of what my mother told me about the time she volunteered to work at her local Social Security office. First of all, they made her sign some kind of privacy notice that she wouldn’t tell anyone what went on in that office. She would soon find out why.
Everyone was about 300 lbs and all they did all day was eat. There were huge lines of the public out front waiting to speak to someone and all the “employees” were in the back stuffing their faces.
One day they put her at a desk to do some filing and the phone kept ringing. (No one EVER answered the phone.) So she picked it up. It was some poor granny whose lousy $250 check had stopped coming. Mom told her she couldn’t give her any advice but if it were her she’d get down to the social security office in person pronto. All day she fielded calls.
The next day they left her a great big note and told her not to answer the phones. It seems when you call these government agencies and you’re on hold for hours and hours, it’s not that there’s not enough employees, it’s that they are all in the back room stuffing their faces.
She didn’t last long there. And she’s long gone from this mortal veil so they can come and get her if they don’t like that their veil of secrecy was pierced.
You got it.
And the only thing they produce is more grief and debt for America.
Correction: Too much govt. Period.
I posted a story from Kalifornia yesterday
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3432702/posts
This all gonna blow sky high in Trumps first term.
It’s a welfare-lite program. No, make that welfare-heavy.
“And just think, there are over 22 million government employees today.”
It’s more than that.
That doesn’t include all the gov contractors (about 10 million) like Gruber, and their graft.
Welcome to the “wonder world” of government unions!!!!!
“The pensions for educators and the many double dipping educators is far beyond what the state can handle.”
Here in MA the really clever gov workers double dip:
1. Work 20 years in a state job = get state pension, then translate your contacts their into:
2. Work 15 years in a fedgov job = get fed pension.
At age 55 buy a giant $100,000 RV, retire and drive around the US on a six-figure pension.
I worked briefly (if it could be called that) at a Medicaid facility as a computer programming contractor.
Maybe you got something there about the secrecy. One of my co-workers, the one who had recommended me, in fact, sometimes went outside to smoke. It was the winter time and he wore a trench coat. To me he looked like a classic movie spy when he did that, and I kidded him about being a spy. Well the CLIENT (the state) overheard my kidding on a conference that we weren’t even involved in, and I heard that they got really nervous. Not long since, they kicked me out. Can’t prove anything, but got some real strong suspicions.
Wow. Corrupt, lazy, and paranoid. Not a good way to go through life. It appears you may have been spared their fate. I’m sure it wasn’t a good feeling to be let go, but you probably dodged a bullet on that job.
Yes, a silver lining to it. They didn’t want too much innocence, too much honesty, too much openness.
One can debate on the basis of theory the morality of government systems like this (charity efforts ought to be associated with foundations and churches, not with governments), but the ultimate proof of the pudding is in the tasting.
And later, at a place where I am now, the lady who was the manager at my current location told me that the city where I had been was cut-throat.
I guarantee some of them are no-show jobs.
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“This all gonna blow sky high in Trumps first term.”
What really needs to happen is for all gov pension funds to be rolled into the “Social Security Trust Fund”, and gov workers must work 1 year longer than private sector workers ( if I qualify for SS funds at age 62 then a “public servant” can’t get it until age 63.)
That’s fair for all.
All these governmental entities will be coming to the US government fro bailouts.
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