I still want to know (from sdr) if it’s typical for potential clients to show private financial info to a prospective realtor. Not just talking in rough numbers, but showing paystubs or year end pay statements. That still strikes me as very odd.
For those still debating pension stuff. (although not limited to public pensions). I will recommend a book I’ve mentioned before.
“Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers” by Ellen Shultz – a former writer for the WSJ.
Confession I only read about half of it before I had to return it to the library (and put in on reserve again so I can finish reading it.)
Every time you hear some corporation like GE mentioning that Pension obligations cost them 13 cents a share, remind yourself that they did NOT mention when pension over funding added 14 cents a share to the bottom line in previous years. It’s a book full of data about how the message was managed to make us hate pensions as evil and how companies manipulated the pensions, actuarial data, projected earnings and liabilities to whatever ends they wanted at the time. Piggs like data, right? This book is full of data… that may not fit your anti-pension mind sets.
