Interesting. This is a flaw of the system where she lives, no big surprise in Florida. In my state public retirement system, you use the average of your THREE best years AND you can only improve by some small fixed percent in those years. I forget the exact number.
serious question from an indep wrote:
Could you please define shitlib?
I get that it is an ad hominem attack, but does it in any way encompass issues? Please explain. I am serious.
+1
There is no way a person of her age worked 90 hours per week for 2 years. There's a fraud angle here, and if someone goes digging, they'll probably find she was clocked in and sleeping or clocked in and not even at her desk.
Inspired wrote:
There is no way a person of her age worked 90 hours per week for 2 years. There's a fraud angle here, and if someone goes digging, they'll probably find she was clocked in and sleeping or clocked in and not even at her desk.
She was working a 911 call center. I have a friend that works one. They spend a lot of time doing nothing, because they have nothing to do when calls arent coming in. I would guess that she was cherry picking the hours where calls are least likely too.
Police and fire (which she falls under) tend to get the sweetest deals. Usually 20 years and out, with a huge pension. Police and fire, btw, tend to be heavily Republican AND supported by Republican politicians.
In Wisconsin, the Governor killed the collective bargaining rights of almost every union EXCEPT police and fire, because, you know, those unions vote for Republicans. It's the same here in Indiana, where a police officer is making nearly $60k after 3 years, gets a take home car, and can retire at 20 years. "Regular" public employees have to work at least 30 years, and don't get those goofy overtime boosts that this lady did...
So as much as I'd like to blame the libs for this one, remember the favoritism that Republicans show the Police and Fire unions..
Are the two sentences in the title of this post related to each other?
I keep telling everyone.. Just print up $25,000 a year for each American over 18. It would be a boom for spending and the economy. They just print up money now, it means nothing. 15 Trillion in debt, i mean its a total joke. Just give us money, its what they do to the bankers and Union retirees.
The OP is a liberal posing as an extreme conservative to foster resentment against conservatives.
Or just an angry person.
I honestly gotta give her props for that. She figured out a way to work the system and she did it. You can't fault her for being smart about it. It's the system's fault, not hers.
New Yorker wrote:
The south is funny. You people are really getting excited about someone making less than $200K/yr? I guess it is still 1950 in the south, so I understand why that seems like a lot of money to you.
IF you were half as smart as you pretend to be you would know what the average salary of an American is, and would know that 182K is WAY above... but then you are so, so impressive that you think nothing of "less than 200K/yr". You arrogant prick. I laugh heartily knowing that you are a shallow piece of crap.
Cheers.
Charles Nonhomogenous wrote:
Police and fire (which she falls under) tend to get the sweetest deals. Usually 20 years and out, with a huge pension. Police and fire, btw, tend to be heavily Republican AND supported by Republican politicians.
In Wisconsin, the Governor killed the collective bargaining rights of almost every union EXCEPT police and fire, because, you know, those unions vote for Republicans. It's the same here in Indiana, where a police officer is making nearly $60k after 3 years, gets a take home car, and can retire at 20 years. "Regular" public employees have to work at least 30 years, and don't get those goofy overtime boosts that this lady did...
So as much as I'd like to blame the libs for this one, remember the favoritism that Republicans show the Police and Fire unions..
Anyone know what the pension benefits are for the Wisconsin Gov after he leaves office?? Probably $100K per year at least, for life. Who decides those benefits?.......oh wait, he does.
That's the biggest joke out there. The legislators, seat holders, and others in charge turn public service into a public fleecing where all they have to do is pass through the process to collect the benefits for life. Everyone wants to run for something to suck the teat of public monies, the biggest $$ pile out there. Certainly not the intentions of the writers of the Contstitutions, but everyone wants a piece. Don't like it, vote'em out but the next person who goes in will get the same benefits.....and why would they change lifetime pension benefits for themselves. Just keep sending me bills.
in florida, public employees just had their pensions cut and illegally forced to make up 3 percent from their own salaries (just struck down as unconstitutional by the state supreme court) but you focus on an outlier.
Yujiih wrote:
She retired in 2002 when Bush was in charge. Just sayin'.
Very insightful. Are you a Freshman in high school?
Now I am sure you are probably mean George W, which really holds no weight as he has no way to regulate pensions of city in the United States.
If, and this is a big if, you are referring Jeb Bush (George's bro) being the Governor of FL, then you are still wrong. Most city pensions are created by the city govt and the county govt, and any changes must come from there. It's actually a pretty basic Govt 101 lesson.
So you are failing on multiple levels with your snarky, myopic comment.
Just sayin'.
Don't hate the playa, hate the game.
Time to move to Florida
Pretty sweet deal to me. Plus no state taxes
Awesome approach. I will pass that onto my children!Fvck integerity and honesty just work the system!You are what many consider the modern version of a True American!
puck wrote:
I honestly gotta give her props for that. She figured out a way to work the system and she did it. You can't fault her for being smart about it. It's the system's fault, not hers.
Yujiih wrote:
Beaver Retriever wrote:Very insightful. Are you a Freshman in high school?
Now I am sure you are probably mean George W, which really holds no weight as he has no way to regulate pensions of city in the United States.
If, and this is a big if, you are referring Jeb Bush (George's bro) being the Governor of FL, then you are still wrong. Most city pensions are created by the city govt and the county govt, and any changes must come from there. It's actually a pretty basic Govt 101 lesson.
So you are failing on multiple levels with your snarky, myopic comment.
Just sayin'.
I was referring to Clell Bush who was mayor at that time. Try to keep up.
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Mayor of Miami Beach in 2002 was David Dermner
How about you keep up?
Dermer*
At the time the policies were instituted. Damn, you're slow on the uptake.
When I was an undergrad, I took a class in corporate and managerial economics. A third or so of our time in class was spent talking about incentive packages. We'd talk about what strategy an employee would be expected to utilize under a given incentive package and we'd talk about how the incentives could be structured to ensure that the employee's best option was to do what was in the best interest of the employer.
If you had walked into that classroom and described this incentive package to the room full of undergrad econ majors, it would have taken about 30 seconds for the entire class to unanimously conclude that a rational person would try to work a whole lot of overtime in their last few years on the job to maximize their retirement pay. There's nothing remotely surprising about this outcome. She was told "we'll literally pay you millions of dollars to work a lot of overtime for three years" and so she did it. It could have been predicted by undergrad econ students and it could have been predicted by whoever designed the incentive package.