[Gaffer]

Well, they are there to "Serve and to Serve Profit", aren't they?

[Nervous Tick]

I wonder if the pigs get grumpy and mean when you put a lid over part of their trough...

[Trod Upon]

America is so over-policed it isn’t even funny. Fire half of them and nobody would notice until their taxes fell.

[Crazieman]

The story here is how manipulative the unions are over this sort of thing. My fellow postal clerks here on FR can attest to how much of a convoluted maze and minefield the overtime rules are.

I often get into screaming matches at coworkers over this sort of thing. Suffice it to say, I’m not liked by the union true believers =]

[publius911]

“The City will not change the work schedule resulting in the loss of overtime.”
“I’ve never seen that in a contract,” Parker said this month. “There is language you will find in those contracts that doesn’t exist in other contracts. It’s a good example of how extreme some of the language is in some of these contracts.”

And this illustrates perfectly the cancer that has been killing towns, cities, counties and even states (the national disaster is a whole other problem!)

Elected officials enabled and empowered those union sweetheart contracts!
They would never accept those provisions in a private contract they had to pay personally. That suggests that it is not ignorance and stupidity, but conscious neglect and perversion of their oath of office and legal fiduciary obligations. That's a crime. Why aren't these prosecutable crimes? The perps are out of office, fat, dumb, happy and proud of themselves for saddling the taxpayer with impossible future debt, which is cummulative.

Personally, I would indict the last ten administrative groups responsible to answer for their crimes, plus I would enact laws to define and limit their immunity for what are, for every non elected citizen, jail time crimes.

Can any competent lawyer out there give us the fine points of what constitutes failure of exercising enormous fiduciary obligations?

Sure, we are free to elect the ignorant and the incompetent (ain't egalitarianism and "PC" great?) but we don't have to tolerate their crimes that negatively impact the electorate for generations!