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just as long as every single civil service employee..federal, state, county, school district, police, fire, postal...you name it...they ALL must lose their medical benefits too.....

my impression is that some here on FR could care less what we peasants out here do, as long as they got their bennies and their pensions, who cares, right?

“just as long as every single civil service employee..federal, state, county, school district, police, fire, postal...you name it...they ALL must lose their medical benefits too.....”

That will be a neat trick......I can see em screaming now :-)

Government bennies aren’t always as good as you might think they are. I’m a state employee and I pay $420 a month for my health insurance and that does not include dental insurance. County employees in my county get free health insurance for employees but pay more than state employees if they want coverage for their families. Our city used to have free health insurance for employees and families but they had to stop that because premium increases were killing them. City employees are paying a bigger percentage of their premiums every year now it seems. My insurance premium goes up every year, eating up my minuscule cost of living increases. One year recently I actually started taking home less than the year before because there was such a huge increase in my health insurance premium. This year with the increase in health insurance premiums my 2.1% cost of living increase only ended up working out to a take home pay increase of something like $10 more every two weeks. My family’s standard of living is going down every year. I’ve promised to stay in my job until mid summer but after that I’m going to have to find a better paying job. Government benefits aren’t so great anymore, unless you are a federal employee. I think they still do pretty well with benefits and they certainly seem to do a lot better when it comes to wages or salaries.

just as long as every single civil service employee..federal, state, county, school district, police, fire, postal...you name it...they ALL must lose their medical benefits too.....

What's the big deal? Just as for employees of private business, the money being spent to provide those benefits would instead be paid to them in salary. Then they could shop for the best value in private insurance along with everyone else. The resulting market discipline would restrain costs.