It
really frosts me when people attack my retirement system. Just because
not everyone has as good of a retirement system as we do, it does not
mean we are crooks, thieves, greedy or any of the other derogatory terms
people throw around to describe public servants.
We do a job most people are unable or unwilling to do, and we make
far less than folks who sit behind a desk all day in those glass towers
in the big city. We
work our asses off to protect you, the citizens of our jurisdictions.
We go out every day and put ourselves in harms way to do things the
members of the common populace are unable or unwilling to do for
themselves. We do jobs most do not want to do.
We ride around with a big target on
our backs simply because of the badge on our chest. We are
automatically a target to some, because we have sworn to protect the
many. We have to deal on a daily basis with people
"motherfucking" us because they are not happy with what we're telling
them, and we have to do so without ripping their heads off. We go into the messy crime scenes that would make most people puke.
I
am DAMNED thankful for the paycheck I get every two weeks, and the
health coverage I have because I could be bothered to take on full-time,
gainful employment.
If we
are fortunate enough to make it to retirement age, we have earned every
red cent of what we get. If you want to attack someone for their
retirement system, why not start with your legislators or the top
executives who get bonuses even when their company burns down a neighborhood.
Leave my retirement out of it...
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I know nothing about the terms and conditions of your particular retirement arrangements, but, in general, the pension check collected by the public servant who serves honestly and diligently in a merit system bureaucracy, and who retires in good faith, without fraud, after years of service, cannot usually be said to be an unfair windfall.
There are, to be sure, many public employee pensions which seem to be overly munificent. Such situations stem from the failure of the government-side negotiators to zealously assert the taxpaying public's interests at the negotiating table. [N.B. The "taxpaying public" includes the public employees themselves.].
The union negotiators always have a clear idea of why they are at the table, who their constituents are, and what they need to do for their constituents. The fawning obsequiousness of the government negotiators, and the resulting pension expenses which must be borne by the public, are certainly not the fault of the pensioners.
I would also like to point out a public servent is required to go out in all kinds of bad weather, called to go out at all times of night and, like it or not, work holidays.
Well said
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