Somehow, I just knew.
Ok - good news bad news personally with this post.
Bad news: this ruined my day.
Good news: I have my next American Thinker article topic. This kind of government employee compensation, multiplied by millions and millions of local, state and federal workers, is going to swallow our economy whole. It is crazy.
We get the government we let happen.
In Louisiana we saw voters support corrupt populist politicians BECAUSE of the candidate’s corruption!
A person with a situational ethics or Darwinian based values system may actually admire a politician for ‘working’ the system. If there is no right or wrong, no absolutes, then the ‘smart’ person learns to take all he/she can with both hands, and only a fool would worry about whether they actually DESERVED what they take. Once a significant population believes this way and it becomes socially acceptable within a peer group, the peer group then identifies with the culprit in office, admires his actions, and believes they should support a ‘smart’ candidate (who does what they would do) rather than a ‘dumb’ (moral) candidate.
I have always felt this was one of the reasons that the left idolizes William Jefferson Clinton, renowned traitor and thief though he was.
Don’t blame the person, blame the system. It is like an IRS $500,000 tax credit that could be carried forward, would you and I take the tax credit? Of course. It is their system that is set up like a Ponzi scheme and it will be bankrupt long before she gets much of her retirement.
“The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.” ~ George Washington
I know Louisiana had a plan of this kind in the 1990s but don’t know if it still does because of his huge budget woes.
I think this is the original article from a Philly Newspaper.
“DROP participants will retire and return”
It appears there are 2 councilpersons doing this. The other is (Dem) Wills Ronald Donatucci. He collected $366,797.
In the federal service, one can retire, collect a pension, and then come back as a re-employed annuitant. I have known a couple of people who have done this; in my experience, it's usually because an agency is having trouble filling a key post and wants their star performer back, at least for a couple of years. There is an adjustment, either of the salary or the pension, to make sure there's no double dipping, so it really is a case of the employee doing a favor for the agency. Somehow, however, I doubt that is what is going on in Philly.
Hmmm, so far as I know Monday January 2nd is a Federal & State Holiday although I don’t know that it is a City of Philadelphia Holiday. Now if it is, is it possible that everyone involved in this “Swearing In Ceremony” will get Holiday pay premium compensation, yet another cost on top of everything else. Gee isn’t it nice to be a member of the master class?
Somehow, I just knew.
Can’t for the life of me figure out why all our cities and towns are going down the tubes!