Brilliant idea. These happen to be the hooks that keep a large percentage of kids interested in school.
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Posted on 01/24/2017 7:03:17 AM PST by george76
Keeping their fat pension in place is for the children.
Math is hard, especially when things don't add up.
Math is hard, especially when things don't add up.
What’s wrong? I thought illegal aliens were supposed to be an economic gold mine.
I worked for an electric utility owned by the state. It was the same mentality. We had bureaucrats supervising other bureaucrats, and guys that, no one knew what they did, and when they retired, their jobs were not replaced. One guy who is a supervisor who naps in the afternoon. He maintains his position by his political skills.
As an electric utility, when the fiber optic boom took place, the utility owned valuable rights of way. It took them a couple of years to debate whether they could sell valuable rights of way for joint usage, and therefore make money. However, they were chartered to run an electric utility, and not to be a profit making entity. Would have not cost the state a cent; pure profit. Senior management acted like they were debating the theory of relativity, or which came first, the chicken or egg and never could figure out if they could make money on selling rights of way on electric power line easements. Meanwhile the fiber optic companies found other ROWs and the utility ROWs became worthless.
It was a safe and secure job, so long as I knew my place, but frustrating.
The union had a thirty page instruction pamphlet for janitors on the proper way to sweep the floor. I once saw another instructional from the government about as many pages long on making brownies.
I once told the General Manager at the union that if the managers (excluding me ) had been in charge of the Lewis and Clark Expedition we would be speaking French now.
Just, wow!
This is why it was brilliant for the Post Office to pay pensions for 75 years the day a new employee starts. After all said and done, the post office will be the only department standing after America goes bankrupt. I know some think funding future pensions is dumb but I think it is brilliant. I think if companies and government agencies had to do this starting in the 1950’s, we’d be a better country. Now everything is screwed and we are heading towards bankruptcy if not worse.
Well dangle some money in front of a ‘rat and they go berserk spending.
Republicans are just as bad. Bush added 5 trillion to our debt. Obama 9 trillion. Both unacceptable just because Republicans are a bit smaller. We should stop all spending for 1 year except military, Intelligence and that is it. I wouldn’t even mind skipping one year of military academies. That won’t hurt anything. What will hurt us is the continued spending and then dying on the vine.
So when the teacher’s and the politicians say the new taxes they want are for schools, roads, infrastructure or the “children” they mean THEM!
You and the children mean nothing to THEM.
Just gimme more money for their very high pension.
A state legislature is not required to recognize the folly of a previous legislature. It’s called sovereignty. Cut the pensions, via appropriate legislation, to the point where the pensions are manageable for the state.
Originally the government paid much less but promised job security security and guaranteed pensions. The military was paid much less and attracted people because of job security and retirement. That was workable when a recruit received $68.00 a month, now not so much.
Anyone that thinks the US government will give away sovereignty of half the Western coastline is insane.
cut them....
and let the govt workers kids get the shaft from their own parents, as it should be....
they didn't give a damn about the children when they coerced TPTB to grant such ridiculous and undeserved pensions..
it will hurt the young kids, but that's what these so called caring adults want.....
Brilliant idea. These happen to be the hooks that keep a large percentage of kids interested in school.
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OHHP. This article is the Democrat-prompted but unofficial “official” California All-State BOHICA notice regarding the upcoming multi-billion dollar statewide school bond initiative that will appear on the next ballot.
Wonder whether they’ll use the same old photos of the same old broken school restroom toilet that they still never fixed with all the billions they got in all the several past bond measures floated both locally and statewide.
No matter. Even if they get billions this time, next time they’ll STILL speak and act like paupers. It’s a state of mind problem (liberalism); not a money problem.
https://ballotpedia.org/School_bond_elections_in_California.
teachers are not covered under calpers.. they are covered under calstrs
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