San Francisco Fooled into Voting for $5.8 Billion Pension Spike

Breitbart.com ^ | 4 Jul 2017 | Chriss W. Street

[Popman]

-—Now here, when you build a single-family home, it has to have fire sprinklers-—

Wait’ are you serious ?

A new single family home is required to have a sprinkler system...?

That is absolutely insane...

[vette6387]

“That is absolutely insane...”

NO, it’s just California today! And of course, the HO Insurance Companies are also behind it. We have so many smoke/CO detectors in our house, that if they all went off together ( and they are wired up to do just that ) we’d suffer hearing loss. The issue really is that the government, at all levels, acts like a preacher selling virtue. There is simply no expense to be spared in the name of safety, never mind that a lot of it really offers no improvement, but it does make someone wealthier and/or it adds more bureaucrats to “monitor” our lives.

[OrangeHoof]

This is why I always vote NO on such referenda, school bonds, libraries, public trusts, etc. I figure there are thousands of boobs who will vote for it because it sounds nice even though they’ve never read the proposition or the undisclosed details where they handed the government a carte blanche. My vote won’t offset theirs but I figure every little bit helps.

[roadcat]

The unionized firefighters here have nothing more than three stories with which to deal, and who spend their time “promoting” even more “safety items” so they can sit around the “house eating and sleeping.”

They got it easy. I have firefighter friends here in San Francisco, and they have to deal with highrises, as well as cliff and sea rescues along the waterfront. But I agree about the time spent at the firehouse. I've been to a couple and when not busy, they're cooking steaks, enjoying sports on big-screen TV and sometimes waxing their private cars nearby (shh, don't tell anyone). But they do have a dangerous job, and sometimes get hurt on the job - I've seen some with casts on broken limbs. Guys in the suburbs have it easier. But they're all paid very well and can retire at 50 with bigger pensions than other employees who retire at 65.

[Does so]

Its been over 30 years, but a Miami-Dade ballot was worded so that a tax decrease missed by a decimal point. A 10% decrease resulted, affecting all County expenditures. The error was eventually papered-over after voters passed the proposal.