I see from your profile that you work at a major university. From your arguments regarding guarantees, am I going to far to assume that you work at a public university, and have a public pension?
You have a penchant for the obvious. I’m real tired of reading all of the bashing of all gov’t employees on these threads, as if all people are the same. They aren’t. One of my relatives is a retired conservative politician; does that mean that is an evil unfair pension getter? Same with John Boehner, Jim DeMint, Sarah Palin, etc. Are they all shiftless coniving out to get their fellow workers, unworthy, never did an honest day’s work bums too? I’m so sick of the constant bashing of all gov’t workers that I could puke. And expecially amongst certain freepers who should know better.
By the way, do you have any idea how many fellow Freepers have had gov’t jobs in their lifetime as well? If you guess a whole heap of them, then you would be right. So, a little fine tuning of the constant slurs against all who work in some state or federal gov’t capacity would be appreciated, and I might add for the most part of my career I made diddly squat in salary; the expectation was that I would get a decent benefit package in lieu of a lousy salary for most of my working years. So, all of those people who are out in the private sector who used to make tons more money than I ever did in my lifetime in salary, and for whom the worm has now turned and the public sector does better at both salary and benefits, I begrudge you nothing in thinking the pendulum has swung way too far in the other direction and public salaries/pensions now need to be reigned in.
However, I do begrudge you the constant denigration of your fellow public servants who also worked all of their lives to feed and clothe themselves and their families and actually did an honest day’s work for their money, contrary to what too many of you seem to want to believe. I might add, before I worked for a public state university, I worked for 20 years in the PRIVATE sector, so I know both sides of the coin. Do you?
Thanks for the sob story. In the meantime, I suggest that you should rethink your political party.
You are my opposition, and the opposition of everybody else in the private sector., flaglady47. Political parties don’t mean much anymore. Leeches like you mean everything, and I’m sick of you and your ilk’s excuses.