[Kirkwood]

Yes, really. Do you know what a savings or retirement account is for? If you work for yourself, you better plan ahead for those times when things get tough. No one owes you a permanent job or will promise you that your business will always make a profit. If you beleive that, you are a democrat.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And this moralizing has what to do with the price of tea in China?

Is there some reason you are evading the real point, which is that government workers generally have it a lot cushier than Joe Blow, that the salary numbers they talk about as meager are actually only a small portion of their picture?

[Rebelbase]

You’re acting like a douche. Stop it.

[fingers_crossed]

Thank you for your ventilating and hypothesizing...but since the article is on FR...I wouldn’t mind it if someone, perhaps from the area could answer the question of why they quit.

This is obama’s america and they aren’t far from the border, so were they perhaps given orders they didnt want to deal with...let me know

[GizzyGirl]

I think you missed golux’s point! We have so many on federal and state pensions, they retire or quit at 50 or younger and they are paid the rest of their lives!