Damn. Read this:
In New York City, the No. 2 guy in the fire department retired on a pension worth $242,000 a year. In New York State, a single official holding two jobs and one pension took in $641,000. A lieutenant with the Port Authority police retired with an annual pension of $196,767, and 738 of the city’s teachers, principals and such have pensions worth more than $100,000 a year. Their former employer, it goes almost without saying, is steamed. Their former employer is me.
These examples of pension obesity were culled from the local newspapers, which never fail to shock with revelations of how good life is for those who once worked for the city, the state or any one of several public agencies. In some cases, retirement came a mere 20 or so years after first reporting to HR and, if you were lucky enough to fake a disability – oh, my aching back! – the sky is virtually the limit. Fully one-third of all New York City cops who retired during a recent 17-month period did so on disability. They have dangerous jobs, we all know – but not nearly as dangerous as Long Island Rail Road workers. Almost all of them retired on disability. All aboard!
As they say, read the whole thing. The Public Sector Unions are losing even the Left. Richard Cohen is a Liberal’s Liberal, and this is in the Washington Post. If the Public Sector Unions have lost him, then it is done. Scott Walker needs to stand firm, as he has been doing, and slay this dragon. If he does, even Cohen sees it as the makings of Presidential material. Too late for 2012, I am afraid, but 2016?
Tags: Scott Walker, unions, Wisconsin
