Our “servants” have become our masters.
conservativedatingsite.com?? lol
Fear not my friends - I’m a government worker with a modest salary. All my private sector friends make a hell of a lot more than me.
Not much longer. I think this summer is going to be particularly hot.
When I mentioned to my wife that I thought her sister was a leech, my wife got upset. That is until I informed her that what my wife did for a living (customer support for a health insurance company) was providing a service to doctors. What I did for a living produced heat in the winter and cooling in the summer. That we both were producers of products or services that people needed.
What her sister does has nothing to do with producing ANYTHING other than our taxes to go up.
Then I had to remind my wife that her sister makes a lot more to do much less than what she does.
My wife didn't say another word...
True story that just happened two hours ago. God's honest truth. I had no idea that this story even existed as we were not home from work yet.
I was woried about my son in his new job as a NY state police officer- until he told me he makes $85K
This is almost as much as I get for seniour level computer software engineering of embedded systems controllers
While i have less problem with Police officers making good money, I know many govt lardasses who sit on their butt collecting between $65K and $120K for doing absolutely nothing useful
We had one guy whose job was to print out monthly reports, and take the previous month reports to the shredder and THEN to the incinerator (they were never looked at- because you could pull the information off the intranet now)
We had another guy who was a senior level database administrator- who did not know how to turn on the database.
We had a senior level programmer who spend 6 months to do a program - until I got fed up and wrote it myself in 4 hours- they DID NOT USE mine and let him continue to work on it for 3 more months
When I finally quit in disgust they hired the county executives NEPHEW (cousin Jeffrey from the parks department) who was literally mowing lawns the week before- into the programmers position. I had to show him how to turn on the computer.
Govt. tax dollars at wor. the ocal media would not even touch the story
I’m a civil service employee. My counterparts in the private sector doing a similar job makes, on average, 30% more a year. Some of you guys need to get a grip. You don’t get rich working for the government.
One of the problems with gov. workers is that most of them, if not all, are unionized. Their wages can only go up, never down.
Take for example, Air traffic controllers can easily make over 6 figures and retire EARLIER than other fed. workers.
From my experience, about 1/2 the people with Government jobs in the UK are useless, whiney drones.
The other half do all the work.
I’m just curious...
How much do government burger flippers make compared to private sector?
How about government gas station attendants, vs private?
Government gardners vs private?
Government chambermaids and hotel workers vs private?
Government coffee barristas vs private?
Government fruit pickers vs private?
Government car wash attendants vs private?
Government dishwashers vs private?
Government waitresses vs private?
Government hotel valets vs private?
Any idea what the pay is for the above job classifications, worker for worker in government vs private?
More divide and conquer!
In good times the private sector leaves the public sector in the dust!
Now we have obama!!!
“Government Workers Make 45 Percent More Than Private Sector Employees”
To be fair, you can’t just look at percentage comparisons of salary, you also have to look at how much more productive government employees are before you can make a judgment......
NOT THE TOP OF THE LIST
“Special Nurse” $350,000+
Municipal railway manager:$325,000+
“Administrative services” department head $280,000+
State college workers salaries:
JEFF TEDFORD UC BERKELEY HEAD COACH-INTERCOLG ATHLETICS $2,831,654
PHILIP E LEBOIT UC SAN FRANCISCO PROF OF CLIN___-MEDCOMP-A $1,979,362
TIMOTHY H MCCALMONT UC SAN FRANCISCO PROF OF CLIN___-MEDCOMP-A $1,945,717
RONALD W BUSUTTIL UC LOS ANGELES PROFESSOR-MEDCOMP-A $1,570,897
RICHARD J SHEMIN UC LOS ANGELES PROFESSOR-MEDCOMP-A $1,195,837
KHALIL M TABSH UC LOS ANGELES HS CLIN PROF-MEDCOMP-A $1,048,891
BEN BRAUN UC BERKELEY HEAD COACH-INTERCOLG ATHLETICS $998,569
http://www.sacbee.com/1098/story/1669273.html
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11/29/09
California debt may be half a trillion dollars
Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee / FR Posted by SmithL
Just days before Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislators finalized a water package, including an $11.1 billion bond issue, state Treasurer Bill Lockyer warned them not to do it. California is already deeply in debt, Lockyer warned, has huge budget deficits and can't afford another big bond issue. "The days of blithely heaping more and more debt burden on the general fund are over – at least they should be," Lockyer said.
The earmark-laden bond issue, the package's single most controversial element, raises an interesting question: Just how deeply in debt are our state and local governments? The answer: No one knows for certain, since debt is scattered through myriad agencies in many forms, but well over a half-trillion dollars is a fair estimate.
Lockyer's warning pertained to the state's "general obligation debt," which currently stands at $59 billion, and there are an additional $50-plus billion in general obligation bonds that have not yet been sold.
The biggest chunks of debt, however, are the unfunded obligations for pensions and health care of retired public employees. (Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
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NOTE: Gap For Calif. Retiree Health Care Grows To $52Billion CBS5.com | AP / FR Posted by NormsRevenge
SACRAMENTO (CBS 5 / AP) ― The state controller's office on Tuesday found that California taxpayers are on the hook for more state government retiree health benefits than previously thought. Controller John Chiang's office issued a report showing the growing divide between what the state owes retirees for health and dental benefits and what it has saved so far. The gap has grown to nearly $52 billion, about $3.6 billion over last year's estimate. ...
"Even as we try to claw our way out of the recession and provide needed cash to the state's coffers, we cannot ignore the promise that we made to pay health and dental benefits for current state employees," Chiang said in a statement. "I urge lawmakers to reduce the impact on future generations by putting additional dollars into the annual payments so that we can invest those funds." (Excerpt) Read more at cbs5.com ...
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And these profligate pols expect the feds to bail them out with OUR tax dollars.