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IamK (514 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 10:39 PM Original message |
Brown to seek sweeping Calif. pension rollbacks |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
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HDPaulG (221 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. He is one of the 1% |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
2. Why not just place a maximum on overtime to prevent "spiking"? |
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YvonneCa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
28. Some state employees are contract.... |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 12:18 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. I think that unpaid overtime would have no effect on an eventual pension. |
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thecrow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
3. "proposal would save about $900 million annually..." |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 11:01 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Not to mention being only a small fraction of the defecit. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 11:42 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. It would go towards California's MASSIVE budget deficit. |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 11:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. minor detail. nt |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
5. Wow -- never thought I'd see Jerry Brown selling himself and government -- !! |
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MurrayDelph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:32 AM Response to Reply #5 |
14. I missed the /sarcasm sign |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:16 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. You're better informed about him that I was .... |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
9. The US hybrid (FERS) is a much better system than the pension only |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:34 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. A hybrid 401(k) is better than a Defined Benefit Pension Plan? |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:55 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. For one thing, its portable |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Ha ha ha, you sound just like our corporate HR hucksters! |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:00 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Feds abanonded defined benefit decades ago and generally the employees are better of |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:47 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. You have repeated your unjustified assertion, nothing more. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 08:53 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Are you a Federal Civil Servant? That was whom I was referring to... |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 04:47 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. It is not a hybrid 401k it is a hybrid pension package |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:22 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. You are forgetting the gold handcuff issues |
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Joe Bacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:41 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Tell that to my fellow coworkers who saw a big chunk of their Thrift Savings Plan go down the drain! |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 04:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. If they didn't sell their stock when Bush crashed the stock market |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:03 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. I'm very happy with the PERS defined benefit plan I worked for and paid into... |
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grantcart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 04:54 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Go here |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 08:55 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. CALPERS is still in a world of hurt |
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Old_Ed_inVN (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:25 AM Response to Original message |
11. Nobody reads the full proposal |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
16. Why don't we just declare open season on retirees and the disabled and be done with it? |
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LuckyLib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
24. An eye-opening look at California state $$ troubles, and how cities are suffering, |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 09:53 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. but the prisonlobby is generous with politicians and they get what they pay for. |
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