“if govt would stop funding insane ridiculous pensions then present day services would improve dramatically and we would have more than enough police, teachers, etc...”
So walk me through your logic here because it seems to me that you are suggesting that lowing benefits would improve services.
Well, I can suggest that you go to New Jersey, where cops and teachers are the highest paid with one the best pensions system (bankrupt) on the planet.
Newark spends 30K per student, teachers are paid well but the kids are dolts that end up in prison caught by a cop making 120K a year with a pension of 80K a year when he retires at 45.
You want the best government services, move to New Jersey, and live in Newark.
/sarc