Tweak To Employee Benefits Turns Jersey Into Auschwitz

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/578029/201107121805/Tweak-To-Employee-Benefits-Turns-Jersey-Into-Auschwitz.htm ^ | July 12, 2011 | RALPH R. REILAND

[Kaslin]

SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. — Public-sector employees here now are regularly referring to Gov. Chris Christie as "Adolf Christie."

Things got especially ugly when Christie signed legislation that requires each of the state's 500,000 teachers, police and other public workers to pay more for their pensions and health benefits and eliminates the issue for four years from collective bargaining.

In this traditionally Democrat state, Republican Christie was victorious in a legislature with solid Democrat majorities, successfully arguing that the current and projected pension and health benefits for public-sector employees are unaffordable and unsustainable.

Advocating spending cuts rather than tax hikes, Christie pressed the points that Jersey already has the highest real estate taxes in the nation and that actuary studies show the state's pension and health funding is $110 billion short of eventual liabilities. New Jersey taxpayers pay an average of $7,576 per year in property taxes.

Under new legislation, public-sector workers will be assessed a portion of their health care premiums based on how much they earn. After a four-year phase-in period, employees who make $60,000, for instance, will see their annual health insurance payments more than double, from the current 1.5% of salary ($900) to 3.4% for single coverage ($2,040) and more than triple for a family plan to 5.4% of salary ($3,240).

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These higher contributions from state employees will amount to "27% of the premium cost for single coverage and 17% for family coverage," reported the Philadelphia Inquirer.

"A Kaiser Family Foundation survey last year found that workers with employer-sponsored health plans paid 19% of the premium on average for single coverage and 30% for family coverage."

[Secret Agent Man]

What hyperbole.

Imagine what they’d be saying if Christie didn’t do this, and instead had to fire tens of thousands of state workers.

Contribute still less to your retirement and healthcare than almost all private workers do == You’re Hitler.

How ungrateful these spoiled, self-centered, selfish libtards are. Seriously. They don’t know how good they have it.

Actually, they do. Note that none of them quit in disgust to go work somewhere else.

Here in WI there was an opening for a public scetor job (after Walker’s budget cuts and public union changes like NJ’s) and to show you just how disgusted and unwilling people are to work under the new Hitler-ish conditions, only 400 people showed up to apply. /sarc

[GenerationY]

I’m having trouble with the comparison since a visit to Dr. Mengele didn’t cost money.

Seriously though, I hate these comparisons because they disrespect everyone who actually was in Auschwitz and secondly it trivializes something that should be remembered for what it really was.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

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[Psycho_Bunny]

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[SaraJohnson]

Maybe they were speaking from the airport?

But Christie is not in charge of the sexual molestation policy. That would be the Union’s Obammy.