[AnotherUnixGeek]

In fact, they’re among hundreds of Los Angeles police and firefighters who have turned the DROP program — which has doled out more than $1.6 billion in extra pension payments since its inception in 2002 — into an extended leave at nearly twice the pay

At the taxpayers expense, of course - taxpayers who do not get virtual retirement with double pay when they have a bad back, and who have to keep driving to work on potholed streets which can't be repaired because most of the tax revenue is being spent on luxurious government pensions.

It's all completely unsustainable, but hey - it gets the Democrats the government employee vote so it'll keep going until it crashes.

[Bernard Marx]

It's all completely unsustainable, but hey - it gets the Democrats the government employee vote so it'll keep going until it crashes.

That sums it up. I'm constantly amazed that the blockheaded voters put up with scams like this. The public is so easily fooled. I think President Lincoln concluded that "You can fool most of the people most of the time."