[Jim from C-Town]

Really? Cruel and unfair. Like when they said that my Social Security tax would be a certain percentage and then they decide to raise it? Like when they say that I can retire at 65 with full benefits and then they decide that 67 is better? Soon to be 72! Like when they say that I can keep my medical insurance and doctor if I like it, but they actually do not mean it?

Spare me what is FAIR for the lay about government workers. F’em they got theirs in high pay, low work, no lay off jobs. If they didn't save, let em starve or sign up for food stamps. Enough is enough. They are no better than those that work to pay the exhorbinant taxes to pay their bloated salaries and benefits.

[jrp]

I have to agree. Whatever cuts there are will be small. Current retirees and employees will still have far better benefits packages than the vast majority of private sector workers. Retire in your 50s with a huge percentage of your (spiked) final salary as a pension? Cry me a river.

Even in WI, the cuts were pretty minimal. And in most cases, police and possible fire and EMS are not cut at all.