Right on. We need to figure out how much we need to pay these folks TODAY for the work they do TODAY. Just like everyone else with a job. It is ridiculous to promise them pay and benefits for the REST OF THEIR LIVES in exchange for the next 20 years work. Maybe they should get a raise. But when the work stops, the pay and benefits stop. I’m sure someone will take that deal if the current crop resigns over it.
I’d take it further. For many government jobs you don’t even need the positions. Start with zero based budgeting for every job. You’d be able to eliminate 5-15% without incurring public ire because their jobs are so obviously unneeded.
We need a Live Action crew to film government workers in the execution of their duty. Film them doing nothing, chatting, driving around aimlessly. Every afternoon there is a 4 man public works crew that shows up for the last 30-45 minutes of the day and parks near my house to kill the time.
They’re gone now as I’ve complained, likely hiding somewhere else. It would have been better had I filmed them day after day. I wish I had.
That's what they are doing...The pensions are part of their wages for the work they did today and yesterday that they trusted the Gov't to hold for them...The Gov't spent it instead...
You wanna chop their wages, go ahead...But don't cheat them out of their own money that is owed to them...