The Fed retiree leeches never even paid for their retirement - they paid ZERO social security and very little for their retirement plan, amazing that they were exempt from what the rest of us had to pay, isn’t it. Then, they get to retire much earlier and at a higher rate of pay than the rest of us. They should take any money they paid and put it all into the social security and let them live off of that.
I’m a Federal employee and don’t consider myself a leech, although I know of many that I would consider leeches. I am just as frustrated as you, but I can’t do a thing about it. I don’t understand why people insist on singling out Federal employees as lazy incompetents; probably because you only hear about the bad ones and then make a broad generalization about all Federal employees.
You lie when you say that “Fed retiree leeches never even paid for their retirement”. All Federal retirees pay a percentage of their gross earnings into the Civil Service Retirement System. You’re correct in that we CSRS employees paid ZERO social security. That was not an option for us, so how could we pay social security when we were requuired to contribute to a different retirement system? I didn’t make the rules about Federal retirement.
When I hired on with the Federal government, the retirement system wasn’t a consideration. My desire was to work in the private sector, but at the time, those jobs were scarce, so I took a job with the Federal government. Those of us who work for the Federal government and do a good job have nothing to feel guilty for. You should be directing your venom towards the Federal government for they way that they take Federal retirement contributions and SS contributions and spend them on other Federal programs instead of investing them to grow the funds.
This is no longer true. Fed employees contribute to SS, have a 401k equivalent plan, and a 1% pension. This has been so since the 1980s.
I know of cops, who retire at 50, and are now making $75,000+ per year in tax paid retirement for the rest of their lives, this includes top shelf, tax paid medical benefits for not only the government retiree, but their wives.
Now the cities and counties are all going broke as the U.S.
Wait until all this goes belly up.