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Regardless, it is mathematically impossible to let people retire in their mid 50's at 90%+ of their final pay FOR LIFE with our demographics. The automakers in Detroit found that out the hard way.
Some people can't even make a point without lying. THe only people who retire in their mid fifties with a high percentage of their salary are police and firemen. Probably something like 10% of govt workers who receive part of their compensation in the form of a pension, are in this category of "safety workers" that can retire so early. I guess the military get a similar deal. Funny, I don't hear you complaining about them.
If you have to lie in such an over the top way to make your point, it means you don't actually have a point.
By the way, nobody was stopping you from becoming a cop if you think it's such a wonderful deal.
THe other thing that I've explained over and over to you guys, is that most govt workers contribute to their pensions out of their pay. Then their employers and the state or fed govt kick in another 10K or whatever, per year. It's a form of compensation, that's there in part because the people are committing themselves to a service job, that has a limited upside. It's only in the past 2 or 3 decades when the private sector has lost a lot of it's potential, that so many now complain about those government workers taking home the big bucks.
THe only people who retire in their mid fifties with a high percentage of their salary are police and firemen.
I think I'm one of Marcuse's 41 ignores, but I believe that is at least partially true for all Calif employees?
Funny story Moon Beam has cunningly deferred the maintenance on the bridges to where 80% of the subpar bridges in the US are in Calif. This so Moon Beam can finance public pensions.
Another idiot, who can't make a point without lying. California's infrastructure was suffering from seriously deferred maintenance before Brown started as Governor. He's basically a pragmatic problem solver with a democratic legislature to back him up, unlike the starve the beast inneffective morons that preceded him.
This is from 2010, before Brown came back to govern California again.
http://www.businessinsider.com/worst-state-road-systems-2010-7#7-hawaii-4
California's infrastructure was suffering from seriously deferred maintenance before Brown started as Governor.
Tom Woods indicated the other day that he had done the deferring, apparently not true.
He's basically a pragmatic problem solver with a democratic legislature to back him up, unlike the starve the beast inneffective morons that preceded him.
Seems to me the core problem is the collective bargaining that Moon Beam signed into law in the early 70s
Tom Woods is a crank who believes the Dark Ages were a time of great learning and achievement, among many other stupid things.
Tom Woods is a crank who believes the Dark Ages were a time of great learning and achievement, among many other stupid things.
A Harvard grad with a doctorate from Columbia, I don't think so.
A Harvard grad with a doctorate from Columbia, I don't think so.
A Conservative Catholic with an axe to grind, another Libertarian/Tory who loves the Feudal Era of "Golden Liberty".
And things that our government has actual control of: Education, Business Climate, Municipal Finances, Infrastructure, Income inequality.......
California ranks dead last or near the bottom.
Great job Progs!
Conservatives like me joke with our friends how we have to pay California's dysfunction tax to live in a geographic paradise.
So when are all the conservatives going to take over Sacramento and run the liberal vote out of SF and LA and finally fix all our dysfunction?
So when are all the conservatives going to take over Sacramento and run the liberal vote out of SF and LA and finally fix all our dysfunction?
We are totally outnumbered. Thanks to foolish Progressive policies, California has seen the fastest and most dramatic demographic shift in modern history.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/01/24/in-2014-latinos-will-surpass-whites-as-largest-racialethnic-group-in-california/
Our only hope is to split California into smaller and more manageable chunks.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/02/21/california-six-states-plan-tim-draper/5673283/
So please consider that we seriously could soon end up in civil war AND LOSE to these right wing nuts. (as it happened in Spain)
The South won the Civil War, which they fought to preserve the ludicrous privileges granted them at the Constitutional Convention in 1791. Between 1791 and 1860 the Virginia landowner was the most privileged of U.S. citizens - the price other citizens paid for keeping agricultural slave states in the union.
Though the war cost them the Three-Fifths Compromise, which had effectively given political power to private property, the South emerged after Reconstruction as a coddled welfare dependent of the federal government.
Today, the red state southerners are a permanently-aggrieved, sensitive and entitled bunch of takers of federal largesse.
Today, the red state southerners are a permanently-aggrieved, sensitive and entitled bunch of takers of federal largesse.
Looking at Moon Beam and Marcus, I would say that is not peculiar to South East...
just like the japenese won WWII...judged by majority ownership of far west coast real estate.
Japanese lead foreign investors in buying Hawaii real estate
http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/blog/morning_call/2015/02/japanese-lead-foreign-investors-in-buying-hawaii.html
The South won the Civil War,
A Conservative Catholic with an axe to grind, another Libertarian/Tory who loves the Feudal Era of "Golden Liberty".
I have not seen any evidence of this, how are you arriving at this assertion?
I have not seen any evidence of this, how are you arriving at this assertion?
Can't take a while off, eh? Woods is a self-described Traditionalist Catholic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Woods#Catholicism.2C_American_history.2C_and_Politically_Incorrect_Guide
Editor of "The Latin Mass Magazine" for more than a decade, which is an anti-Secular and anti-Vatican II publication.
Whew, that took all of 15 seconds.
Woods is a self-described Traditionalist Catholic
OMG completely unacceptable, so what?
Editor of "The Latin Mass Magazine" for more than a decade, which is an anti-Secular and anti-Vatican II publication.
Whew, that took all of 15 seconds.
And that is shocking how?
You would prefer secular? and atheist?
When I saw the thread title, I assumed that this thread was going ot be about Martin O'Malley.
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