Posted on 08/30/2012 7:04:58 PM PDT by Randy Larsen
I am retiring tomorrow after 33 years(8/31/2012).
Don't let any FRiends rain on your parade. You put your years in dutifully. Again, Congrats!
Maybe we should raise taxes so you and the wife can eat out more ?
I’m glad you posted this - gave a chance for many of us to wish you well in your retirement. Don’t pay attention to the miserable person.
Congratulations, and wish you all the best in your retirement.
Maybe you should reflect on why you felt compelled to make this thread and make a point that you are retiring after many years being a government employee if you are so secure in your choices?
I’m not criticizing or judging any of your choices (even privately), save the one to make this thread...
Envy is a worse disease than any physical disease.
A thought for the day.
Enjoy every day Randy. My older brother retired in May ‘11 after 38 years with Nebraska Public Power at age 59. He had suffered from heart problems for about 15 years and had gone on long term disability because the stress (he was a shift supervisor and was responsible for all operations of the power plant that he worked at when he was on duty) and the shift work had ruined his health. One week ago today, he started having flu symptoms during the night. He got up for a while in the morning then laid back down to take a nap and never woke up.
My brother busted his ass for almost 40 years to take care of his family and amass a sizable chunk of money to get him through his retirement years. He was having a blast in retirement but that only lasted for 15 months. Please for his sake, enjoy the heck out of yours. You worked hard for it and you deserve it.
Look, he’s only getting ahout $4,000 per month in tax paid government retirement per month for life.
Stop mocking the poor guy already!
I'm glad he did. It's totally in the face of the tax payers who are bankrolling his retirement, while they eat chet.
Realistically, he made a rational choice and it’s paying off for him in spades. If not him, we would be paying someone else’s $4,000 pension.
Many good conservatives are on food stamps, pensions, SSDI, and so on. They do it because the system has become so twisted, that for many the only way to “get ahead” is to take government means. Personally, I wouldn’t be able to do that and look at myself in the mirror. But obviously not everyone has the same inhibitions.
Think of it as like the Monopoly free parking rule. Monopoly purists hate that rule. But, if they are forced to play by the rules, it’s very difficult to win the game if you refuse to take the money when you land on Free Parking.
It’s the system at fault, not the individual.
There is room for honest debate about that. Assuming 4 years of college plus 33 years actually "working," that would make him 55.
Most of my private enterprise friends work 45 years which make them in the neighborhood of 67.
What's noteworthy about that?
Simple. We non-govermental types paid for their entire retirement, as well as our own; We paid for half of our health care, and all of theirs. and we retire, on average 12 yers later.
Envy? not at all; just the uneasy feeling that we've been had.
If we didn't perform, we were fired. If they didn't perform, they got shunted aside with continuing pay and "automatic" longevity and undefined "step" raises. Short of being caught in serious criminal behavior, "public" employment is lifetime employment. The only fired "public employees" ever are all in Ripley's Museum. all eight of them.
I, too. hope he enjoys his retirement. He didn't invent the "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" scam.
He simply exploited it.
If the "fairness" that has been politically exploited for four years should be genuine, something needs to be changed sooner, rather than later.
It's not too many enterprises in the real world that can enjoy the luxury and contradiction of having the employee earning more than the employer.
You bet, the government employees got their tax paid lottery style benefits and their tax paid retirement pensions and the rest of private sector America can eat sh*t!
Understood.
No, I am completely against public pensions. I just prefer to focus on crushing the system instead of getting upset over the individual.
I'm self-employed and hoping to stay ahead of the creditors long enough to keel over. :)
I for one wish you a wonderful life. You paid for it, you deserve it. Take care. Hub’s been retired for 2 years and we LOVE it!
Is that too much after 33 years?
So, basically, you're going to be making between $22-$24 an hour for checking your mailbox for the .govcheck twice a month.
I can see how that's going to go over big with the young taxpeasants who'll have a tough time finding a $15 an hour job to pay for your leisure time...
No bitterness here. Smell that coffee....
Honey, I can catagorically state that government pensions are not fat or bloated for the most part and most are very definately earned dealing with the public. Too many people believe that anyone working for government (city, county, state or federal) are responsible for whatever law or tax they are currently upset about and very often they are not treated with civility or courtesy. Thirty years of that is a testament to incredible patience.
The young taxpeasants should not have voted for Obama. They did and because of THEIR stupidity (something they and you have in common) Obama is POTUS and has been running Trillion plus deficits. This has not only endangered the private sector it is also endangering the public sector.
If you are so jealous of his benefits, take the civil service test and apply for a job. If you don't want to do that, then it is your bad not his. You just don't know what the hell you want to do with your life.
FYI, I do not work for the government (local, state of federal). No one is stopping anyone from taking the civil service test and applying for a job.
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