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Perry “retires” early, begins collecting state pension
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| December 16, 2011
| Allahpundit
Posted on 12/16/2011 9:58:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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It might be legal, but the optics are bad.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I hate to know my eyes are getting bad...
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is this on the square? Is this satire? If not, good God if it is not. PerryTINKLERS are gonna go nutzzzz over this huh?
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posted on
12/16/2011 10:12:23 PM PST
by
bobby.223
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Did he specifically request it? Or did Payroll Processing just follow the programmed rules?
/johnny
To: bobby.223
I like the term I started here: Perrywinkles. LOL
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posted on
12/16/2011 10:14:06 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
To: bobby.223
Reagan qualified for his (mandatory) SS while he was in the White House. He had to go to some trouble to specifically assign it to the Treasury.
I want to know if it was automatic or if Gov. Goodhair requested it.
/johnny
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Perry makes a $150,000 annual gross salary as Texas govenor. Now, thanks to his early retirement, Perry, 61, gets a monthly retirement annuity of $7,698 before taxes, or $6,588 net. That raises his gross annual salary to more than $240,000
So many government workers in every state are able to soak taxpayers like this, using poorly thought out or deliberately mis-designed retirement and pension rules to double-dip or even triple-dip. Yes, it's legal - but it shouldn't be.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In most cases our gov’t is in autopilot in these matters. I would like to know if this was a request on the part of Perry or if this is an automatic feature in the TX gov’t.
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posted on
12/16/2011 10:24:20 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sometimes bad optics just happen.
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posted on
12/16/2011 10:25:40 PM PST
by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Must be nice.
But everything is big in Texas—especially egos, avarice and cronyism.
LBJ land to a T.
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posted on
12/16/2011 10:26:26 PM PST
by
Happy Rain
("Having A Communist Joke In The White House Takes Graveyard Humor To New Heights.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The term ABC World News used was “double-dipping”.
Make the stupid man stop.
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posted on
12/16/2011 10:27:40 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In Texas, it isn’t really like a pension, it is closer to a 401K. The money he is taking out, he has paid in over his career and is matched by the State up to a certain percent (not sure the exact percent).
Nothing really wrong with that. It is like you rolling your 401K over into an annuity when you hit retirement age but continue to work.
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posted on
12/16/2011 10:29:57 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“I have signed into law H.R. 4331, a bill that substantially incorporates the social security changes which I urged in my address of September 24 to the nation—restoration of the minimum benefit for people receiving that benefit, and interfund borrowing to tide the system over while the new National Commission on Social Security Reform develops a bipartisan plan to achieve long-lasting solutions to social security’s financing problems.”
RR...
Beware: Mitt N Perry’s movement of the mouth...
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
12/16/2011 10:33:43 PM PST
by
mnehring
To: Happy Rain
Sure, Texas is so corrupt that North Carolina had presidents elected one after the other after Andrew Jackson... Oh... Wait... the offical border hadn't been set then.
Take your Texas envy elsewhere.
LBJ was a primo barstid. He's gone. We've fixed a lot of things since then.
/johnny
To: 2ndDivisionVet
that’s probably the pension of a DMV worker in California and that is entry level. haha. union of course or maybe an entry level Homeland Security worker at the airport. thank the unions!
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posted on
12/16/2011 10:43:17 PM PST
by
GOP Poet
(Time for Bambi and his commie crew to go.)
To: JRandomFreeper
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posted on
12/16/2011 10:43:41 PM PST
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: JRandomFreeper
Texas envy?
One word—”Perry”
All we get from Texas are illegal alien rapists, murderers and thieves who used Texas as a highway.
Give them amnesty if you want but keep the rotten bastards in YOUR state, OK?
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posted on
12/16/2011 10:44:26 PM PST
by
Happy Rain
("Having A Communist Joke In The White House Takes Graveyard Humor To New Heights.")
To: Jim from C-Town
You have a source for that?
/johnny
To: Happy Rain
One word, Graham.
They don't have amnesty here. And we don't want them either. They also use NM, Arizona, California and Florida.
So ease up on the Texas bashing.
/johnny
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