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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (243598)	4/9/2010 9:32:42 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<that doesn't make $100k pensions at 55 a good thing for society> Call over to the school down the street from wherever you live and ask why the teachers are getting $100k pensions at age 55 -- and when the laughter on the other end of the phone subsides, think of something to say that actually might make sense. There are people who retire at 45 with half their pay or more -- they are called sir in the military. Now you tell me, should a military officer get a pension of that sort? I don't know -- I did not want to serve in that capacity -- did you? How about a fireman -- do you offer to spend your life running into burning buildings? Or a policeman in one of the godforesaken cities of America where getting shot is more than a theoretical possibility on any given day on the job. Now lets cut to the chase -- the attack on public pensions is a total red herring -- a distraction at best. A propaganda campaign at its worst.