California Struggles as President-Elect Obama Promises Aid to States

Yes, all 211,784 full time state employees are working towards a 90% retirement at age 50. This would mean every last state employee started work at age 20 in either the prison, police or fire protection fields - that's who gets that retirement benefit. If I were dense enough to retire at age 50 after 22 years of state service I would get a whopping 24.2% of my paycheck, and this is the retirement system most state employees signed up for in exchange for making less than they could on the outside. I would then have another twelve years to work at some other job before my reduced social security check kicks in at age 62 after paying into the system to keep your oldsters afloat for almost 43 years. A brilliant plan we state workers must have devised to hose the rest of you, isn't it?

Burn Your Bridges of CA 1:14AM December 17, 2008

What about the 10 billion spent every year on entitlement programs to illegal aliens? What about all these govt. workers retiring at 50 with 90% of pay for life? All the public employee unions and the illegal aliens are driving the state into the ground.

Bill of CA 6:55AM November 26, 2008