What he did or didn't do for himself is not the issue. He fulfilled his obligation in working for his employer based on the benefits package guaranteed to him by his employer. And now YOU are in support of screwing him out of what his employment guaranteed him?
How about this scenario bro: I hire you to replace the heating system in my house and you quote me $3,000 to do the job. Once the job is completed I then tell you that I don't have the money and all I'm going to pay you is $500...........That won't set well with ya bro, will it?
“How about this scenario bro: I hire you to replace the heating system in my house and you quote me $3,000 to do the job. Once the job is completed I then tell you that I don’t have the money and all I’m going to pay you is $500...........That won’t set well with ya bro, will it? “
That’s not even close to the scenario.
I hire you to do a job - with money I say I can borrow. When the job is finished, my credit line is tapped out, nobody will loan me any more, and my house gets repossessed, you come to me for payment and I’m homeless and destitute.
How do you get your money?
It certainly wouldn't go over too well with me....however, I'd slap a lein on your house for $2500 and I would collect it, plus interest someday.
His chance of getting his benefits from Detroit are practically zero
No problem. Detroit bankrupt should sell off every bit of property they have, every license, every corrupt judge, and every fine paid at the order of a corrupt judge, every court house where corrupt judges used to congregate, every union official pension, every government official pension. Every asset and every liability, tote them all up. Every government worker gets fired. The city is no more, and after liquidating all the assets, it is work what? 20$% of the liability?
And he gets that. That is all anyone gets. Perhaps everybody gets 20,000 a year, and the amount over that gets split, so noone gets stiffed, noone starves so a corrupt judge gets his second million.
And then, anyone who wants to contribute to the “I am a poor Detroit cop” fund would be free to do so.
Detroit cops have hurt a lot of people over the years, and helped a lot of people. The people they helped should contribute. The people they hurt, won’t.
Promises that can’t be kept won’t.
Unions have had coercion and threats as their business model for a long time. I don’t care for that business model, and don’t feel compelled to contribute to it.