If the State of California cuts Fire and Police protection the people should raise hell. Don’t lump them in with the school system and use it as a scare tactic. Our Firemen/women and Police men/women have given their lives for the people. They need to be protected.
We have small city Police Chiefs in California who make more than the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And then they retire at 90% of their last years salary. If they don't cut some of that stuff we should riot.
yes and construction workers, miners, bus drivers, farmers have given their lives up also for the job. should they all be given outragous benifits and pension plans also???
how much can taxpayers stand to pay retirees???
I know a deputy that never once had to draw a gun in defense, court baliff actually, who is retired after 30 years at age 53 on 80% of max salary plus cost of living increases for life.
what’s with that?????
i know of some firefighters (wild fire fighters) that only work summer, get paid very little, no benifits, they are dropped into raging wild fires, and that is danger!! but being part time fire fighters, they dont have no big powerful union to threaten the tax payers to give them more money.
plenty of the local cops are nothing more than glorified tax collectors, writting tickets to raise money (not traffic safety) even writting illegal tickets in a parking ticket scam, sanctioned by the police chief!!! (redwood city calif) we got teh code enforcers, they have cop status yet all they do is write folks up on nany state code violations. god I hate these kind of cops.
the true hero cops are few and far between, dont lump them all together with the worthless leeches that wear the uniform also.
fire fighters may risk life as do other professionals, they are not corrupted like the police can be, they take real risks, but I say pay them upfront enough that they can manage their own retirement, dont put taxpayers on the hook for the next 50 years for a pension plan. certainly have insurance for fire fighters injured in the line of duty. but stop this insane pension plan, no one deserves these kinds of pensions, they are unsustainable. cut them to zero, no more pensions period.
End the police and fire fighter unions, they are like gangsters, there shoudl be no collective contracts, pay each worker based ontheir performance. most us taxpayers do not have union thugs to get us undeserved pay raises.
the fire and police are important, but they are both full of waste. they could be cut maybe 10-20% and not effect safety. the police could be cut more before safety is effected, if the cuts are made in the right places.
we have a big fat fancy new city police station, copper roof, high pretty ceilings, a great taj ma hall of a police station, they could have run the police out of a rented trailer, and put the cops on patrol. no tears shed if the police budget is slashed.