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Posted on 09/28/2009 9:52:49 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
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OUTSTANDING post! Thanks.
I picked this link up at National Review. I notice that Free Enterprise Nation offers a paid membership available to businesses. That said, if the information is accurate in this article, it’s worth being brought to light.
It’s common practice. Retire, then come back to work as a consultant and make pension plus salary.
And some people are so surprised that the Tea Party movement is gaining momentum that they resort to calling TPers ‘terrorists’.
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The disparity is actually worse because of supposed ‘private enterprise’ salaries include contractors for government services that are often required to pay union rates. For instance a road company who’s entire business comes from local, state or federal contracts, and is required to pay union rates is placed in the ‘private sector’ column, when in fact it is a government enterprise.
If you took out defense contractors, road-building-service contractors and their forced inflated rates.........the difference would be even more.
There are two economies. Private-private, a private-public. The privately owned, but servicing government ought to be filed on the government side of the ledger.
Anyways, let the children pay for it. Or the Chinese.
Anyone who threatens the pig trough, is terrorizing to the piggies.
I cannot believe this crap! Government workers on average make more than most people, have a greater benefits package, more holiday and an outstanding but, outlandish retirement package!
This is bullshit. We have to pay some 42 year old or 52 year old $80,000-$100,000 a year plus a smoking and free healthcare package?
Who retires after working twenty years and gets that?
Does this seem fair to anyone?
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"And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."--Thomas Jefferson, the American Declaration of Independence
We need to get real.
Elections WILL NOT correct this.....
Government employment is the biggest single threat to our liberty and freedom. The result is ever increasing and self sustaining government power.
We must start shrinking the size and scope of goverment or we will lose the republic as we know it. Here’s why.
No matter how important the issue, no one will ever vote themselves out of a job and retirment package. This is the dirty little secret all democrats and statist adhere to.
Ping...We’re in the wrong industry...but we already knew that. :-)
“We need to get real.
Elections WILL NOT correct this.....”
+1
You are most likely correct. The chances that this can be corrected by elections are getting smaller and smaller.
We must get term limits on all congressional and senate seats.
We must get representation absolutely committed to shrinking the government.
Time is running out on this. If Obama gets control of heath care in time it will convert most everyone in the industry to government employment. We are likely finished as a representative republic at that time.
Whereupon they immediately proceed to ensconce themselves in little enclaves of like-minded assholes, bitch about the "lack of services" and "culture", and actively set about screwing up their new neighborhoods (people from Jersey, complaining about the lack of "culcha"...??? Oh, please...). They're retired so they have plenty of time to make a hobby out of sticking their noses into everyone else's business.
In most of the Southwest it's the same thing, only it's Californicators. In NM, it's always been Texans. In general, if they just mind their own business, no-one cares. But when they decide to change the place they "escaped to", into the place they "escaped from", they can ruin a nice place really fast. Think Ashville, NC, Aiken, SC, Knoxville, TN, Santa Fe, NM, Crested Butte, CO, all of Florida,,,, ad-infinitum.
Unofficial South Carolina State Motto:
"They's 'Yankees', and then they's 'Damned Yankees'! Yankees come to visit, Damned Yankees come to stay".
Private sector workers are simultaneously being destroyed by government policies, tax increases and regulations that guarantee negative earnings increases, while being forced to pay for the high on the hog lifestyles of the very people that are crushing us with government debt.
Protesting our extermination is racist.
It’s not protests we need but revolution.
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