wow...
I hope the FReepers read your entire excellent post.
Here is the guy who is the only hero in this. At least he is trying to give back to the community:
(from your article...)
After 20 years as a state Supreme Court justice, Lawrence Yetka stepped down in 1993. He gets $10,001 a month, a pension he considers so generous that it led to him volunteering as a substitute judge in retirement.
“It was a very, very welcome surprise,” he said of his monthly benefit. “I volunteer my services to make up for that. I didn’t think that I should be paid separately for sitting on the bench [while] drawing a pension of that amount.”
Omodt, who served 28 years as Hennepin County sheriff, said much of his pension money has gone to caring for his now-deceased wife and his children.
While that “sounds like a lot of money,” Omodt said, “there was hardly a Saturday or Sunday that I didn’t work. So I think I gave back a lot to the citizens.”
Dang. These people made some excellent career choices.
File it under “The Decline and Fall of America.”
Every recent Federal retiree (under the old CSRS ret. system) that was in the Senior Executive Service (SES - those above Grade 15 - and the Feds are top heavy with them) is collecting on the order of $11,000 per month. That’s 74% of their $176,000. Sheesh.
ping
Drastically reining in government pensions — ALL OF THEM and EVERYWHERE — has moved ahead of throttling trial lawyer scum on my Hit List for fixing America.
That is saying quite a lot.