Then Prichard did something that pension experts say they have never seen before: it stopped sending monthly pension checks to its 150 retired workers, breaking a state law requiring it to pay its promised retirement benefits in full. Since then, Nettie Banks, 68, a retired Prichard police and fire dispatcher, has filed for bankruptcy. Alfred Arnold, a 66-year-old retired fire captain, has gone back to work as a shopping mall security guard to try to keep his house. Eddie Ragland, 59, a retired police captain, accepted help from colleagues, bake sales and collection jars after he was shot by a robber, leaving him badly wounded and unable to get to his new job as a police officer at the regional airport. Oh, it's so sad.
Pardon me if I have no place in my heart for these people who have been feeding at the public trough.
The best news is that so far no politician has put his hands into someone else's pocket to help these people.
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“Pardon me if I have no place in my heart for these people who have been feeding at the public trough.”
No, I won’t pardon you. “These people” were promised a pension for the necessary work they did and should receive it.
You can sneer all you wish at some old lady trying to parse out a few dollars to live on but we all know who would cry the loudest if their trash wasn’t picked up or their 911 call ignored.