Peterson "Death Penalty, OT. Options

[Alison Baker]

Scott Peterson sentenced to DEATH !

[dmenche914]

Tell your cousin this:
I respect your work, and risk you take but,
Keep the prison guard union out of politics.

Our govenor accepted a big "donation" from the union right after he increased their pension. It was plainly a payoff, the Govenor got his money, by giving away mine, and the future generations.

The public employee pension plan is costing my state more and more every year. Many of the state unions are big "donators" to the politicians that give them my money.

The pension thing is a scam in my opinion. the reason why is thus: (bare with me on this)

The state unlike a private company need make no profit, and can increase income by raising taxes, and floating bonds (which is in itself another issue of stealing from future generations, except in the case of using bond money for long term projects that will benefit people the term of the bond (20-30 years0 something like a damn, or roadway)

If the State was a company, and the politcian the CEO, it would be like the rank and file employees getting the union to pay off the CEO to get a better pension deal. That would be warped, and in the business world, might lead to prison time for the CEO.

Also since the state need not make a profit, the "CEO" does not care how much he spends, or wastes, and besides, If the deal with the uniion is for increased pension, rather than salary (most private sector jobs do not have pensions), the "CEO" can still claim a "balanced" budget, until the employees start to retire, many years after the CEO has left office, thus the "share holders" (taxpayers) won't get screwed right away, at least not until the CEO is retired.


One of the big excuses my city has for cutting city services, is the overwhelming pension costs now coming due, thanks to some rotten politicians years ago that took bribes, and then figures a way to payback the union in installments with a pension system, thus avoiding busting the budget while that politician is still in office.

The Pension system is not right, give the employess the money up front, and allow them to invest and save for retirement. Be honest with the taxpayers by having the true cost of paying the employees be upfront, not left for a future generation to have to deal with. The pensions just allow politicians to shift the budget on the future.

Few if any private sector jobs have a 55 year retirement age. for the rest of us not fourtunate to have a CEO, that can be bribed by unions for benifits, and with no regard for the future debt of the "company" All we get is our own savings, and oh yes, that bankrupted, unconstitutional pyrimid scheme called socialist security (retirement age expected to be 72 years by the time I get to it, if there is any left at all).

For what I got (and I am exposed to deadly risk daily at my work) with social security as my only pension, a 55 year old retirement at 85% pay (with cost of living adjustments no doubt) sounds pretty damn cushy, seeing as I will have to work an additional 17 years, and recieve considerably less than half my salary, if even that much

Pay a fair wage for a days work, and rid the world of publis employee pension plans, they are scams.