Posted on 12/06/2010 3:04:53 PM PST by BenLurkin
We told you recently about a “hateful, vile” video where the union boss is portrayed as an out-of-control Hitler, essentially calling for the blood of taxpayers if that’s what it takes to finance his big fat pension.
“L’Aristocracy de CalPERS” mines the same ground — “Thousands of retired government employees are getting pensions of over $100,000 per year, and us taxpayers have to pay for them,” the filmmakers say — but it does so with a good bit more humor, and a good bit less “vileness,” if you will.
Using luscious, lavish, lascivious scenes from “Dangerous Liaisons” (the story of “rich and bored aristocrats in Rococo France playing high-stakes games of passion and betrayal”) to hilarious effect, it opens as John Malkovich’s gleaming horse-drawn carriage approaches a castle. As the dashing Malkovich jumps out and scales the palace steps, these words appear: “Vice President Field Supervision, Level 3, Field Operations Group, Water Resources Division, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.”
And then: “Retired.”
California’s pension system – the largest in the nation – is some $59.5 billion shy of what it has promised to pay, and that may be the good news, according to the Pew Center on the States. The health benefits that California has guaranteed its retirees? That’s almost completely unfunded – a $62. 5 billion problem.
The fact check here is that MWD actually has one of the lowest pension formulas in the state (which tells you a good bit about the problem everywhere) and that only a tiny fraction of state retirees — about 1.6 percent — earn more than $100,000 a year. Many of those in the $100,000 club were public safety officers — which makes reform plans that exempt them potentially off the mark.
(Excerpt) Read more at taxdollars.ocregister.com ...
Public employee’s are robbing citizens blind.
“Public employee’s are robbing citizens blind.”
THAT is the truth!
(or really very BAD)
ML/NJ
If we don’t get rid of these unions they are going to destroy this country worse than they already have.
CalPERS Bookmark.
And kalifornications are so outraged by this that they voted Jerry Brown in again. Brilliant.
Insolvency: hope and change you can believe in...
Boot their butts out of This Union...
Thats not saying that the 0 started all of this... this all started way before he was born...But Most honest people know this....
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