The result of growing Government spending and hiring (lifetime-paid) at all levels is an economic reality known as deficits and higher taxation.
Government makes nothing. It eats and craps but provides nothing in the way of economic growth.
Cops are needed and so are teachers, on 401K’s with a small match, not the bonanza of CALPERS.
It never ends, until we all leave and it’s ceded back to the Mexicans.
I agree. The tax-funded bailout of CALPERs, and politicians writing checks that were never funded to promise rich pensions was/is a killer. It should have been just 401Ks, and I'd provide zero matching (like most private companies). Also, schools should be privatized. Just get the education system off the government books, and off the socialist brainwashing.