The only ones entitled to a pension are the military, police and fire dept. Teacher and state workers pensions are the biggest financial parasites inflicting tax payers. Teachers should be lucky they get so much time off for literally doing nothing beside glorified baby sitting never the ultimate rape of getting a full pension. There is a lot of dead wood in the school system and its raping the home owner with 60% of real estate taxes in NJ used to fund teacher salary and retirement.
good old rebelof NJ10:37AM March 07, 2011
"Deal with it?" "Maybe life should be crappy at the end?" Really? In the United States of America, the richest country in the world with untold resources and a diverse and highly skilled population, we can't provide for the elderly after a lifetime of work and service? That is a problem with the economic system, not the citizens. Wake up. Don't complain about workers with pensions, public or private. Work to get a pension in the place YOU work. Form a union. Negotiate on your own with your fellow employees. Fund managers steal your investments with their risky maneuvers and get bailed out while you are left holding the bag. When will the PEOPLE stand up and take control? I will tell you when: when the police officers, firefighters, teachers, religious clergy, public administrators, judges, garbage workers, and everyone else who makes the system work realize that the Masters are coming after them (like right now) because they have mismanaged everything else. THEN things will change. When the system collapses, they will have no choice but to start providing for people instead of corporations. Why should insurance companies and banks have skyscrapers and put their names on pro sports stadiums and arenas when they are gouging citizens and producing NOTHING?
Jeffof OH11:15AM February 28, 2011
I wish I had gotten a pension after working all my adult life. Same goes for the wife who worked all her life. Still we saved and invested wisely so were OK. Most couldn't wait to cash in their equity from their house and now retiring still have a mortgage. SAD. My best advice "deal with it". maybe life is suppose to be crappy near the end.
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