Snoop, I'm glad you get it. You made my day. I was beginning to think that I was the only sane person in an insane world. In which case I would be insane.
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you wrote:
I know many folks on this website do not believe in employee pensions and health plans but I can say that when I went to work many years ago I sought a job that provided those two specific plans.
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I hear you. My mother worked for the State of NJ for 35 years. She drove around in a K-car with no radio, no A/C or heat for 3 f#@&ing decades. She made little money and was passed over for promotions every year. All for me and her family. She hated every second.
She was promised a fat pension and generous health benefits when she retired. That's what kept her going. She earned it.
Thankfully, now her and and my Dad are perpetually in one of three states...either on vacation, just got back from vacation, or about to leave for vacation.
This is going to be a tough one for me if I am fortunate enough to win a NJ state assembly seat.
The public pension system is really way too rich. The state will be bankrupt if no changes are made.
I dunno. I have mixed emotions. Sort of like Osama bin Laden driving off a cliff...in my brand new Mercedes E320.
From the article:
Those signing and abiding by the agreement (or their children, who account for a majority of Medicaid patients here) will receive “enhanced benefits” including mental health counseling, long-term diabetes management and cardiac rehabilitation, and prescription drugs and home health visits as needed, as well as antismoking and antiobesity classes. Those who do not sign will get federally required basic services but be limited to four prescriptions a month, for example, and will not receive the other enhanced benefits.