Michigan legislative action thread
Hey, pal, spell “Money.”
“M O N E Y”
Nope, you forgot the “F”
You were used by your Union Reps so they could get RICH!
How does that work, exactly?
My previous neighbor was a retired NY cop. He was about 44 years old. He started a second "career" for FedEx. The dude is going to be living off NYers for the next 30 or 40 years.
My other previous neighbor just retired from the city here in Arizona. She's 46. Her husband cut his hours down to part time because she is now making more money retired than she was working. Again, she'll be collecting for the next however meany decades.
My co-worker, from Long Island, her dad retired at 40 from some NYC union, then started another union job for the sewer workers. Did that--retired from both collecting both pensions for FOREVER.
And we laugh at Greece?
He made a big mistake: He believed the leftist government, the leftist union.
He didn’t pay SS, but didn’t put money aside for himself.
I wonder: Is he mad at the leftists who lied to him yet?
And I ‘retired’ at age 40-something with a lavish pension and I WANT MINE!
Local and State government employees are exempt from Social Security and Medicare (Constitutional issue), but they may elect to participate as those government may determine. At one time, the military was also exempt, but that ended in 1957.
As local and perhaps even state governments begin to collapse, they will try to get the federal government to bail them out and will no doubt invent some story that the mean federal government shut them out of Social Security and so they deserve to be rescued. Politicians, of course, will sign up for this fiction.
If we private citizens want short and long term disability insurance we have to pay for it and it is expensive. I recommend everyone having both because what will you do in his situation if disabled.
That said, these public servants usually are underpaid so adding in disability insurance would be reasonable. That, and I agree most government pensions are too generous.
I am sorry that politicians made promises that they never intended to fulfill.
I am sorry that the Government promised to loot all of the earnings and possessions of the private citizens to fund the pensions and benefits for Government workers.
I am sorry that Government workers did not object to implementation of benefit programs that would clearly destroy the economy and require virtual theft and impoverishment of private citizens.
I am sorry that we routinely elect liars and thieves.
I am sorry that you did not set aside some of your earnings (not shrunk due to FICA deductions) to fund your own pension (e.g., 401k).
A contract is a contract and should be honored. I pity those that lost their pensions through govt corruption. But it’s not the taxpayers’ problem.
I trust this guy was a good cop, and I regret his injuries. I hope he finds a good path.
While on the subject of injuries, let’s not forget about the troops the come home injured, and especially those that didn’t make it home alive.
Sorry friend, no sympathy here.
You believed a fairy tale.
You voted for the criminal, lying union backed politicians that promised you somethig they could not deliver.
Your actions helped destroy a city
Similar actions are causing the destruction of the country.
Unions are a cancer that need to be cut out of the civic body.
I hope evryone sees you as an example of what NOT to do and how to NOT live a life.
I will pray for you and wish you joy.
But sympathy, never.
Your unions broke the bank.
You enjoyed it while the getting was good.
Now suffer the consequences like the rest of us.
I feel sorry for the guy; but he needs to place the blame where it belongs. And that blame belongs with his union and the DEMOCRAT governments that have so mismanaged Detroit’s finances and promised more than the productive (i.e., creators of wealth) taxpayers could provide on a sustainable basis.
And if I did a google search I bet I would not find a single instance of this “poor soul” coming to the defense of the NON-UNION members of General Motors and affiliates who got screwed out of their pensions so the UAW union members could be protected. Sorry Mr. Lawrence, there will be many, many more state, local and (ultimately) federal government employees and retirees who will share in the suffering that the non-government workforce has been experiencing for years at the hands of our “progressive” overlords.
Welcome to the club Officer Lawrence, how does it feel?
Waaaaaaaaaaaa. This retired cop probably voted democrat all his life.
Detroit is what happens to a city run by rats for 50 years. Do what the rest
of us will have to do. Get a part time or full time job.
Part of the problem is PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS. The other part are the career politicians who first agree to exorbitant labor contracts in order to buy votes, and then UNDERFUND the pension funds to buy even more votes.
We need 2 things: 1. outlaw public employee unions and 2, pass term limits at every level—local, state and federal.
BOTH THINGS NEED TO BE DONE.
Um, I worked in Detroit for almost 20 years, and I have to agree with this guy, working in Detroit is like working in an occupied war zone. The DPD shrugged off SS and medicare for private pension and healthcare plans. This is just another breach of contract by a business entity (the city of Detroit), and it’s employees.
I find this very disturbing, because I work for a railroad, and the feds under paul ryan have been trying to confiscate the railroad retirement fund (a fund set up and fully funded by railroad employees before SS even existed), and will open the door for European style confiscation of ALL retirement funds. If the feds can violate contract law with impunity, then NONE of your retirement assets are safe.
Wow what a story. Where can I send this clown my small violin?
I didn’t realize FR had de-evolved into a den of a-holes. Instead of mocking this guy, we should simply point blame where it is due, Big Government politicians, who made promises they can’t keep. Heck, those former Detroit officials who are responsible should be forced to pay back their wages, and profits from them, into a fund, to help these people out.
Officer, you sound like a good man. I’m sorry you were naive enough to believe anything any government ever told you. ALL Government is, in part, based on lies and deception. I’m sorry they got you but, they did.