If that’s just for the overtime hours, the real cost is significantly higher. People can’t afford their medications, are seeing their life savings dwindle and lose value, and are wondering why they worked so hard and saved their earnings just so the government could destroy their buying power and pull the ladder they were trying to climb out from underneath them.
With other people’s money, that is.
Not to mention stupid. “Sustainable,” a word often applied in numerous instances such as food, fuel, etc. this is absolutely “unsustainable.”
Pinochet had the solution. It should work on more than just communists.
I do not believe that any government worker is working 100-hour-plus weeks throughout the entire year, no vacations. I just don’t believe it. Huge fraud going on.
“ Kashwayne Burnett, a DSS bookkeeper who worked 3,303 hours of overtime in the agency’s Manhattan office. That comes to roughly 14 hours a day, seven days a week. The 10-year veteran’s $164,760 in overtime pay more than tripled his $60,445 base salary.”
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“WORKED 3,303 hours of overtime”? No way! At best he “hung around the office” for an extra 3,303 hours. More likely he “signed timesheets” CLAIMING to have been present for 3,303 extra hours. Government is overrun with such scamming parasites.
Government at all levels only rewards policy failures. That’s the dystopian condition our society embraces.
In the 70’s I worked on a rig in the oil field, we worked 100 hours a week, it was grueling hard work. There is NO FRIKKIN WAY these Gang Banging pussies with badges worked 100 hours a week. Sounds like a Major Financial Fraud and Money Laundering.