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I haven't been advocating a distinction. At some point, these things are necessary expenditures (ie: public safety, teachers, firefighters, etc). What I have stated is that in today's economic climate, the continued increase in salaries and benefits needs to be looked at and there can be a...

Of course it's spending. What's your point?

Look TE, I think you're much smarter than that. Do you really believe that NY, CA or IL are going broke because of civil servants? Really? These liberal states have spent themselves into oblivion.

Maybe you've not been watching the news lately about Wisconsin and I'm sure other states will follow, if they haven't already. I don't have any issue with folks being critical and in some cases, it's justified. Just be accurate with the facts.

It has worked for years. You act as if the public sector has never been dealing with employee pensions. Municipalities, as well as our own government, are going bankrupt because they are not fiscally responsible. I agree that unions and pensions need to be looked at; there is a fair median...

I take it personally, to some extent, because I want the information relayed to the public to be accurate. When there are myths and misconceptions that people spout and others take it as gospel, that's a problem. I agree that, given the economic climate, it's tough to justify increases in...

I agree that they work as much OT as possible when they near retirement but that OT needs to be approved. For a uniformed NYPD officer to make anywhere near what you're saying after 20 years of service, they'd have to have salaries in excess of $200,000 with overtime. That's impossible (for a...

Maybe I'm old but I don't know a retired cop with 20 years of service that has a 100k pension. You get 50% of your salary for 20 years of service. For each additional year after 20, you get 1.66% extra on top of the 50%. If you go to 40 years your pension will be based on 83.2% of the...

Your numbers are way off. You may be confusing their final year's salary with their pension (which may be half your figure). Even then, a NYC police officer would probably have to work some crazy overtime to hit that salary figure. The reality is that the NYPD is underpaid to work AND live in...

Holy smokes man....I was just going to post the same, exact thing after peplaw's earlier post. Something I saw on a mob layers desk many years ago and it just stuck with me. Now I'm sure there are drones overhead and the G is on to me when people on DCU can read my mind........shit......

Avatars are a bit personal and can give away too much information about ones self on the net. I'm not giving the G any hints as to my true identity for fear of being tracked and my communications tapped......of course, there's always the possibility that I'm completely computer illiterate and...

And what your posting and linking makes sense Jon? Do you really believe the government caused one of the worse commuter train accidents in history to silence one man who had a connection to 911 because he was the general that scrambled the fighter jets? Really? That the local police are "in"...

I figured since you brought it up you'd know who you're referring to or have something to reference, especially since people mysteriously were killed off.

Like who? And the fact that people heard explosions after planes flew into their buildings almost had me convinced it was all a cover-up. That's pretty compelling evidence right there. This. Never. Happened.

I pilot those strange choppers hovering outside Jon88's house as we speak.........he's on to us.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/debunking-911-myths-planes Good read and debunks the lunacy. Is it really that hard to believe that this building fell after this kind of fire and devastation? Really?

Is it that hard to believe that a jetliner, traveling at full speed and loaded with fuel, almost cut the building in two and came out the other end causing extensive damage which resulted in the building collapsing? What the hell is there to refute?

I like this one....the "No Planes Theory": Nico Haupt and former chief economist within the Labor Department under the Bush administration, Morgan Reynolds, argue that no planes were used in the attacks. Reynolds claims it is physically impossible that the Boeing planes of Flights 11 and 175...

Is this a serious thread? It's hard to tell if some people are on crack or if they were crack babies whose brains never fully developed.

I'm hoping to be discovered.......