Out of curiosity, how many of the people who support these huge pensions/overtime/fire fighting pay/benefits/retirement packages have family or close friends or are directly benefiting from these policies? This includes any city employee, etc that has similar benefit structures.
Be honest now.
That said, I think a lot of this has to do with simply getting what you feel is yours or something you are benefiting from. Sorta like how as long as a some policy doesn’t affect you or your family, it’s ok with you as long as you aren’t paying for it.
What I really find annoying is the iron clad nature of a lot of these benefits/pensions and how no one can change it. If any business or household is ran this way, they’d be out of business or on the streets.
In a way, I am hoping this economic slog drags out so more and more of these abuses are brought to light (and yes, it is affecting me). If the economy 180ed and was humming again, no one would care about this stuff like the stock market bubbles or the housing bubble. Everyone was making money.
Sorta like how it’s reported how cities keep positions open and when they have to lay off 1000, 950 were open positions which were kept open and they end up laying off 50. Have this drag out for 5/10 years and more of it will come to light (as they are coming to light now).
I also wonder what if there is simply no one to tax anymore? What happens then? Is something like this happening in Vallejo now?
