Government wage, benefit and pension reform is desperately overdue. I’m so weary of all the “hero” talk to justify continued fleecing for military/police pay. If you jump on a grenade or single handedly save a life at great risk to your own, etc., OK, but otherwise you’re just showing up for work. Same as a coal miner or logger. Firemen are a different story; still overpaid, but probably the most utility for the money. Let’s not even think about teachers.... Perhaps the answer is to do away with pensions altogether, like almost all of the private sector. If you want to quit at 50, then retrain on your own dime and do something else or live on what you’ve saved. Maybe indexing peak government employment compensation to the average taxpayer’s wage would work. It’s a mess and taxpayers have been taking it in the neck for too long.
but it will never happen...we're a democracy and the takers can demand whatever they want....
I tell my kids repeatedly...go work for the govt....they will never suffer cutbacks, loss of benefits or pensions and they never get fired..