To: Bryanw92
Spoken like a true government worker or pensioner. There are a lot of creative ideas to fix the problem. Such as let them retire after 25 years and start collecting retirement pay at a normal retirement age, such as 65.
To: fire4effect
Spoken like a true government worker or pensioner. There are a lot of creative ideas to fix the problem. Such as let them retire after 25 years and start collecting retirement pay at a normal retirement age, such as 65.
You pretty much took the wind out of my sail. The problem with pensions like fire and police is not that they pay so much (with some exceptions) but that the people who collect them will collect them for so long. There are many creative solutions to this problem as you have stated. There are ways to defer compensation that are fair and equatable. I know a former police officer who is now a high school teacher. He will retire at 67 or so he says. I'm not sure if he is getting a pension but he was on the force for a long time.
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12/12/2010 4:02:24 PM PST by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough.)
To: fire4effect
There are a lot of creative ideas to fix the problem. Such as let them retire after 25 years and start collecting retirement pay at a normal retirement age, such as 65. How about eliminating that $12,000 Christmas present (aka: Variable Supplement) that retirees of the NYPD, FDNY and a few other select groups receive each and every December?
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