Posted on 10/30/2022 2:06:32 PM PDT by george76
Let me see Democrat run cities and states negotiating with Public service employee Unions. Interesting.
Every heard of a Republican run public employees Union? Didn’t think so.
And worse than that, generous pensions that kick in early and can’t be terminated.
If you think Illinois has overpaid gov’t workers, search wages of bureaucrats in Washington DC.
Quarter million dollar salary - for a bus driver in Chicago. Yeah, yeah. It is the highest pay, not the starting pay.
When I was growing up, my folks insisted that working for the government was for dullard types who couldn’t excel or even compete in the private sector. Well, they weren’t wrong, but the pay levels even average gov’t employees sometimes earn is amazing, and the fact that they are inevitably pensioned and can’t be fired no matter how lousy their performance is is not a nothing.
When I was in high school you needed political connections to obtain a teaching job in Illinois. Prison guards as well and they had to make donations to keep the job.
The Illini are doing fine. They are First in The Big Ten West😉
I don't know, I'm a retired fed LEO GS-14/7 (which is about as much as any GS employee can make at retirement. I make about 85 K 'before' taxes in retirement. And I'm not complaining.
I realize I have it much better than almost anyone in the privet sector.
We have a retired public employee in my town that is getting $16,000 a month retirement. That’s some damn good public service.
State and local government in Rat Party states is just one giant scam.
A few years ago there was a story about an MBTA *bus driver* (the MBTA is the Greater Boston transit system) was,at the age of 55,getting a $90,000 a year pension.
Just gettin’ reparations from the man
Amen. DC is woefully corrupt.
It’s expensive to keep the RAT voter base expanding.
This is caused by the unions working with Democrats at the bargaining table. Except neither side is working for the taxpayers.
IIRC Michigan public employee pensions are similarly protected in the state constitution(!)
No worries! The vaccines will reduce underfunded liabilities!
My brother lives in Illinois. He has a friend who retired from the state highway department who says his pension is more than when he was working.
That’s part of it. Another quarter to two thirds corruption tax built in to any expenditure.
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