Public pensions grow at working class’ expense
The police, fire, state employee and other unions are making you, John Q. Public, the laughingstock of their members as they pile their exorbitant pension and benefit costs on you with the help of your local and state politicians, who have all been paid off in campaign contributions to allow this abuse to proliferate.
As these massive pension costs begin to come home to roost, you will have to expect fewer public services and protection to meet their financial demands. Your property taxes, many in the form of such fees as the “$150 per parcel fire fee” recently enacted will soon skyrocket to cover these obligations. Your roads will fall in further disrepair, education will suffer, and your sales taxes will increase.
Given many of these retirees will be earning near or over $100,000 per year, extracting it from you taxpayers who are earning less than half that as a family, and then retiring at 55 years old or shortly thereafter, the recipe for disaster and collapse has been made.
Yes, we have the 1 percent that we all talk about, but we need to address the lofty 20 percent (the powerful and corrupt public unions) that through bribery have chosen to forcefully deflower our working-class people.
Look around you and take note of your retired public “servant” neighbors, their new motor homes in their drives, their carefree lifestyles, and so on and try to fathom why you must pay so dearly after working so long and hard yourself.
— Garry Cooper, Durham
