They can argue that they were following the rules, but the rules as set up are a con game.
This in a nutshell is WHY the public employee unions here in Pennsylvania ambushed us in an off-year election (by offering CASH PRIZES to voters in Philadelphia!) in order to pack our State Supreme Court with screaming leftists.
For the next decade you can be sure that any such cases filed here will go 100% the unions’ way.
The problem with the retirement deals AS A CONTRACT is that you had government employees unions negotiating with government employees about government employees benefits...
Anyone else see a problem with that?
Nothing like changing the rules ex post facto to convince workers that their contracts with employers are mere scraps of paper.
Live by government, die by government.
Pension benefits have been “gamed” for decades. It’s just one of the reasons most are broke.
Well duh. Easy come easy go. Your government bureaucratic jobs should not provide better than private jobs do. Government employees have _no_ right to form unions and make group demands on government. It is a privilege to serve the public...
All these Government Pensions are Mathematical Impossibilities to fulfill, There is NOT enough Money to fulfill these Contracts and there never will be,
think of the chessboard and the grain of rice story, that is our Government Pension System in a Nutshell.they should be Voided on their face as being Fraudulent.
They can ALL COLLECT SOCIAL SECURITY
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This should please Contra Costa County Firefighters too!
Dozens of them are making twice their normal pay in retirement.
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