[gaijin]

(Richmond, Calif, next to Berkeley)

[Steely Tom]

“Public Service” indeed.

[SaveFerris]

Wow. $400,000 plus. High house prices/rent but wow.

[faithhopecharity]

Richmond CA is also a seriously afflicted city with very high crime welfare murder and poverty rates. You’d think they’d be paying about one- quarter of those wages

[Hildy]

I love our firemen and police, but unions have taken advantage of the system with willing politician and now it is going to come back and haunt every major city and County in America.

[reagandemocrat]

Have you ever visited this site?—

http://transparentcalifornia.com/

Very interesting.

[minnesota_bound]

The only solution as I see it is to raise taxes so we can pay the big pensions for our betters..... while we get none.

I own some stock and have been lucky I recently picked NVIDIA. It has almost doubled since I bought it in August. This stock and maybe AMD is what will provide my “pension” along with social security.

I hate seeing the huge salaries of the gov’t workers like the chart of #5 and being told these people are sacrificing so they should be able to retire at 50 or 55. They just go out and get another job with the state and double dip!

The HUGE taxes we pay mostly go for the pensions and not to repair the roads and utilities etc.