LAST EDITED ON Apr-27-18 AT 12:04PM (MST)[p]>Nemont in post #69 you criticized
>me because I have a
>tax payer subsidized pension as
>a retired law enforcement officer.
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> Well it seems
>you are about as two
>faced as they come. Are
>you going to forbid your
>wife from using her tax
>payer subsidized pension that she
>will have as a teacher?
>I am waiting for your
>slant on this one. Our
>retirement system in CA. is
>far better funded then your
>wife's is in Montana by
>about 20% more.
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> RELH
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>Montana?s pensions for our government employees
>are in trouble. We need
>to have a candid discussion
>of the costs the state
>faces to make pensions solvent.
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>Montana has nine public-pension systems, one
>each for judges, highway patrol
>officers, sheriffs, game wardens, city
>police officers, firefighters, volunteer firefighters,
>teachers, and public employees. The
>teachers? plan, TRS, and the
>public-employees? plan, (for employees not
>covered by other plans), PERS,
>are by far the biggest.
>Combined, they cover about 90
>percent of employees owed state
>pensions.
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>All of them are defined benefit
>(DB) plans, meaning the system
>pays a specified monthly benefit
>to retirees, the level of
>benefit for each employee depending
>upon salary and length of
>service. DB plans are precarious
>because the Legislature (or, more
>precisely, taxpayers) and employees have
>not put enough money into
>reserve to sustain the promised
>payouts over the long term.
>For example, the highway patrol
>plan was only 63.9 percent
>funded in June of 2014.
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Nice try douche bag. I wasn't doing anything except pointing out that you are accepting both tax payer subsidized retirement and tax payer for unlimited health insurance yet throw around the "bent wrist liberal label" like you are some how pure. You are acting like a complete and total liberal on two main issues in your life. They also, as your post points out, are going to be the biggest drivers of future spending and that means if we don't reduce both then you are going to stick your grand kids with the bill. Instead of taking less you whine like a woman about it. Tax payers paid pensions, Social Security and Medicare are the biggest drivers of our spending and you are sucking all of it up. That is about as conservative as Bernie.
Nemont
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.