re: #24 barflytom

…and bureaucrats and all the other members of the priviledged public sector Mandarin class.

Oh yeah, those ‘mandarins’ at the DMV. Such a sweet-ass job. And those people that run homeless shelters, work with child services— easy work with nothing to it. Bunch of spoiled brats.

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The states which are trying to rein in public sector pay and pensions and benefits are actually doing them a favour in the long term.

Because promising people pensions in lieu of pay raises and then reneging on that promise is doing someone a favor.

Yeah.

It’s no good being entitled to a gold-plated pension on paper if the state has gone bust when you retire.

True. But we promised those pensions to those workers. They did the work, and they were promised a certain amount of recompense. To suddenly renege on that is theft, not fiscal responsibility.