“Politics and voting are not the reasons to get rid of Federal employees”
Okay. I was merely responding to some who paint with a broad brush and say that federal employees vote for democrats because they have to listen to the union thugs, and I said I don’t know any who do that but I do know one who votes for the weirdest candidate every time.
“they all retire as defacto millionaires”
You can’t possibly be serious, can you? Is it okay to tax us more since we are “defacto” rich? I’ll tell you what, if me and my husband ever depended totally on the federal govt for our living, we would not make it, let alone be thought of as a millionaire by anyone.
BTW, what we have, we’ve gotten on our own. We don’t waste money, and we invest. If we’re considered “millionaires” by anyone, it’s due to wise choices. Dems want to punish us for using that wisdom - conservatives should not even suggest it.
Anyway, thanks for the advice in the event my husband loses his job, but (fortunately?) his skills keep him busy. He already knows what he would do in the private sector because he has been doing it since he was a very young man.
“You can’t possibly be serious, can you? Is it okay to tax us more since we are “defacto” rich? I’ll tell you what, if me and my husband ever depended totally on the federal govt for our living, we would not make it, let alone be thought of as a millionaire by anyone.”
Let’s generously state interest rates are 2%. If you had a $1M at 2% interest that would be $20,000. I don’t know the exact figure, but the average federal retirement benefit is likely much higher than this. Yes, Federal retirees are defacto millionaires. hardworking taxpayers in the private sector must pay this, and because of that they are unable to amass the capital that they, themselves will need to achieve the same benefit, that they have earned themselves but that is stolen from them by a greedy federal government partly to fund over-pensioned federal retirees.
We simply cannot afford it. At some point hardworking private federal taxpayers will refuse to pay it. That day is coming.
“If we’re considered “millionaires” by anyone, it’s due to wise choices. Dems want to punish us for using that wisdom - conservatives should not even suggest it.”
Is it “wise” to milk outsized pay and benefits from the federal monster? perhaps. It is not “wise” to expect them to be there for you in the long run, because they can’t be - I, for instance, as a hard working private sector taxpayer, do not have enough money to give you to fully play out your “wisdom”.