its always been a dirty little secret that teachers actually get well compensated, that military service pays far higher then similar work in the private sector, that skill-less desk sitters can manage to afford the best of everything....
but I know.....they "earned" it so there...
The worst thing JFK did was allowing public employees to unionize.
When I worked in a NJ public school
The highest paid employee was one of the Custodians
That guy practically lived at the school, working all the overtime he can get his hands on
Next highest paid person was the Superintendent
Then the gym teacher, all of those school sports (coaching) pay well and gym teachers get first dibs at them. That guy brought it 120K (in 2008ish) and bitched how low paid he was.
Then the business administrator and assistant school principal
In Californicator land we have retired sheriffs and chief’s of police becoming city managers or asst to something.
Their retirement pay is often over 200K/year, and their new job pays over their retirement pay.
So you have guys in their 40’s or early 50’s getting an incredible retirement plus an incredible current salary.
Their health benefits are top drawer with minimal if any withholding for those benefits.
Some folks know how to play the PERS to their benefit. YUGEly.
A similar thing could be said about academia and their scam of gouging students with ever increasing tuition costs and putting the hapless borrowers in debt for decades to come.
What a shameless scam by often worthless public “servants”. Many despise Citizens. Pathetic. Criminal.
“You’ll work till 80 so they can retire at 50”
That’s absolutely true. My dad turned 79 this year and is still working 6 days a week running his one-man store.
In the age of class warfare, I’m surprised the American taxpayer has let this go on this long and this quietly.
Do not allow so-called public servants to become your masters.
We were all warned about this long ago. Now in states like CA, NY etc, they're economically gang banging the tax payers.
Bump, I’ve been trying to take a couple days away from politics but being from NY this infuriates me
Check out how many police and fire department workers work extra overtime their last 2 years which sets the amount of their pension PLUS so many of them get “hurt” during those last 2 years to collect disability compensation on top of their retirement. SCAM.
Public service has always been a lie sold to the gullible. As Mencken said about those in government, “These men, in point of fact, are seldom if ever moved by anything rationally describable as public spirit; there is actually no more public spirit among them than among so many burglars or street-walkers. Their purpose, first, last and all the time, is to promote their private advantage, and to that end, and that end alone, they exercise all the vast powers that are in their hands....”
Add 50% to their salaries to account for their pension funding and bennies.