Here we go again...General Electric, and statist/privately funded ... pensions...
Some police/fire chiefs in Californicateya, even in tiny municipalities, if on the job long enough, can earn 2-300 large yearly. A life pension then can amount to almost half of that. And when the chiefy dies, wifey continues to collect. With only grammar school math, any Bozo on the bus can see how unsustainable that becomes, given current demographics, which is why such defined overly generous pension plans, once very common, are now rere. That is in the dreaded private sector. If one still pretends to work in the government/public sector, such pensions, once awarded to almost all, when vested, still exist, but are also becoming less common. Now such pretend workers must pay in their share, although this is typically much less than in the dreaded private sector, where workers self fund their own retirement plan, when they exist, with the employer sometimes kicking in a shilling or two yearly. Several US states are either in, or approaching, receivership/bankruptcy, largely due to pensions, but also to typical spend and tax government mentalities. Used to be that these plans were "justified" by claiming that employees in government "service", earned less than those in real productive jobs in private industry. Long no longer at all true. More voters and taxpayers need to know this, and work to have it all become much more fair.
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