Re: OK, there is a misunderstanding here.
Who is talking firing them or stripping their benefits away? All I am saying is they need to get realistic like the private industry.
There is a big problem of double dipping the same retirement system, not paying anything out of pocket for their retirement and excessive pensions as I showed here. I am not talking about going into another venue and working for a different company. I think that's great, but these other people are taking advantage of the system. The point I was making is that even the people who are taking advantage of the system know they are.
Whatever happened to; Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country? That was a democrat I could get behind.