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To: David Jones who wrote (13005)	8/23/2003 4:59:17 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 306849

It wouldn't hurt to rain in the ridiculous wage and retirement packages the fire and police get here in Cal. I am not familiar with the pay packages for police and fire, so I'd be interested in knowing more. But I find it difficult to believe the wage and retirement packages are "ridiculous", because only a few years ago there was a huge service crunch in the state where the police depts couldn't get staff. So those wages were not at the level of dotcom frenzy wages, for sure. Police fire and teachers are folks who deserve quality pay it seems to me. I know in the case of teachers, they don't get it. what is your definition of ridiculous? In general I am for increasing teacher and other services wages, especially fire depts, and increasing welfare payout levels including any elderly poor. It is only wealthy subsidies I am so fervently against, which includes the elderly because they are the wealthiest demographic according to the concord coalition. We shouldn't be subsidizing the Warren Buffett's of the world imho.