Posted on 01/23/2011 6:25:43 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
Health care and pension benefits for state and local government employees are out of control, experts are telling WND, and a new study by a think tank points to New York City as being emblematic of the fiscal crisis.
Taxpayers in the Big Apple are forced to pay $144,000 a year for salary, health and pension benefits for garbage workers, who are unskilled but unionized laborers.
Research by the Manhattan Institute, a think tank in New York, shows that when Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office after 9/11 the city increased spending on garbage workers' salaries by three and a half times the rate of inflation every year, growing the sanitation department budget from $1.3 billion a year to $2.2 billion.
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Are you on LSD?
ALL I’m saying is the costs of living vary greatly and what the mid/average wage is for the coast(s) (Pick one.) are not the same. You know darn well the average price for homes varies greatly. Is that not the cost of living? So why wouldn’t the mean for the wages work on the same scale?
‘Course I AM from Michigan...the average yearly income used to be higher here.
I live in Manhattan. A bottle of Bud at a bar costs between 6 and 8 bucks depending on where you go. It doesn’t cost that in the Midwest. I make six figures and it does NOT go that far.
The city will be vacant someday. does anyone in NYC make less than 100 thousand a year?
Thank you for backing me up.
Then you add in the cost for heat, air, electricity, etc. and it COSTS alot. Some people, like our politicians, have no clue.
The same is true of Chicago. If you choose to live in “the Loop,” it's far more expensive than living in other parts of the city.
Cost of living should have nothing to do with it. It should be simply supply and demand. Do you really think we need to pay garbage men $144k to get them to work?
Anyway, the Gambino Family runs the trash collection business in New York. Peter Gotti, John's brother, was in the business.
How do you know?
>> >> A bottle of Bud at a bar costs between 6 and 8 bucks
>> Thank you for backing me up.
You guys hangin’ out at the same strip club?
You living in Bug Tussle?
And I am NOT a guy.
The water departments who usually bill for garbage too are little kingdoms all their own. Crooked to the core. The Water Boards are not even elected by the public.
I believe you said you were from Michigan. So am I and “my guess” is that not too many garbage collectors live in Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills or the Grosse Pointes.
If a garbage collector chooses to live in Manhattan, it's not the city's responsibility to ensure that he can enjoy a life of luxury.
LOL - I’ll be quiet now..
It is easy to be a socialist if you are rich. But if you are rich and a sociopath, Marxism is even easier.
A friend told me.
Awwwwe, and his earrings are so cute.
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