I wouldn’t call firefighters and police “overpaid sloths,” but I personally know a retired police officer who has not just double-dipped a public pension, he has TRIPLE-dipped it. That should NOT be allowed, IMHO.
I guess I was an overpaid sloth that worked his ass off for 30 years and now on a fire pension, then was a sloth again working my ass off for a 911 center for 15 years.
YES, I paid into and earned TWO pensions and vilified for it. My state chronically mismanages pensions, driven in large part by slothful politicians eating at the trough of teachers union money and other public unions.
Local government pensions have been underfunded, funds raided, and funds mismanaged for decades and were bailed out -- now managed-- by a bankrupt state.
So, I am vilified by the right for being a slothful double-dipper and vilified by the left when I recommend common sense pension reforms.
The state constitution allows for added benefits to pension plans, but prevents any reduction in pension benefits or reforms that smack of pension reduction.
I worked hard for what I have, so I don't like being called a sloth when we're all victims of very bad governance and public sector unions controlling elections.
Police, firemen and EMT are a small segment of the overpaid sloths. Some are worth what they are paid especially firemen but in most places, even red states, they are unionized, which spells trouble for the citizens’ pocketbook.
Just look at your local city or county employment rolls. They are bloated just like DC. Heck in my county we have a full time arborist to tell developers how many trees they must keep, or plant, on their property in order to get approved and a hospital administration board even though our local hospital was acquired by Advent Health. This so called hospital administration board was meant to help the hospital survive when it was a stand alone but now it is a ‘money pot’ for political b.s. disguised as medical assistance. There are full time employees who will shut down property use if animals on the endangered species list are found on the property, the gopher tortoise is a notorious one here.
In a neighboring county the election department just spent $9 million buying a vacant shopping center to house their department. They won’t address election fraud but they can justify spending taxpayer money by saying it ‘saves on them not renting’, even though the entire shopping center now becomes tax exempt. There are commercial tenants that will not be displaced when the department moves in and becomes their landlord.
City and county rolls are bloated just like the fed and they continue to grow while everyone focuses on DC or the state.
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