Richard Cohen makes some obvious observations regarding why we need to look at the pensions of the public Unions and the abuse of these programs....
In New York City, the No. 2 guy in the Fire Department retired on a pension worth $242,000 a year. In New York State, a single official holding two jobs and one pension took in $641,000. A lieutenant with the Port Authority police retired with an annual pension of $196,767, and 738 of the city's teachers, principals and such have pensions worth more than $100,000 a year.
In some cases, retirement came a mere 20 or so years after first reporting to HR and, if you were lucky enough to fake a disability — oh, my aching back! -- the sky is virtually the limit. Fully one-third of all New York City cops who retired during a recent 17-month period did so on disability.
They have dangerous jobs, we all know — but not nearly as dangerous as Long Island Rail Road workers. Almost all of them retired on disability. All aboard!
California state police often retire at age 50 with 90% of their salary. Corrections officers in that state earn $70,000 in base salary. New York City, the home office of featherbedding, supports 10,000 cops who retired before the age of 50.
It was one thing when unions went after giant corporations run by guys who played golf at restricted clubs. But when it comes to government workers, we are the boss and we pay the bill. To quote what Sam Spade told the woman he loved in the "Maltese Falcon, "I won't play the sap for you." When it comes to public-sector unions, my sentiments exactly.
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2 comments:
You probably should have mentioned --- which Cohen does, in the full article --- his union bona fides.
When you've lost guys like Cohen, you're losing.
Nevertheless, I NEVER underestimate the ability of the GOP to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
"the ability of the GOP to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."
What again?....
Fortunately there are the Tea Party people who are keeping the foot up the butts of many Republicans to avoid "Snatching defeat from the jaws"....
I find it a very interesting time in the fact that we are seeing the confrontation\comparison between the private sector without a Union influence, and a large strong Union influence and where the money\benefits compare...
I have worked several jobs dealing with unions and have see benefits to the workers but also the abuse of the union influence and the harms to the company. Three men to change a lightbulb. One guy actually changes the bulb, one guy as the foreman in charge of bulb maintanence, and a third guy who was a electrician because the first guy was touching the light fixture.... No kidding....
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