Why are people willing to believe a country can engage in fiscal policy that an individual can not?

IF a man lived the way our govt lives, he'd go to jail.


Decades of debt, let me see, how would that work out for me? If I had loans out & continually mounting debts, one day, the bank will call the loans & Ill be in Bankruptcy proceedings.

WHY , what mechanism is there, how is it possible that the country NOT go broke?

& what models have we to demonstrate it will?

Can we not remember the crashed economies? Soros made tremendous fortunes, shorting the currencies of countries the Economic Hitmen set up.

Were going down. Its been set up & its gonna happen. If you have $$$ in any of these retirement accounts & can get ANY of it in lump sum,, I think you should, n

Gov't employees have a largess that just won't continue.  Look at the violence in France.  And Britain just announced today that its state pension system has to raise the retirement age to 66.

The concept of being paid for unused sick time is silly beyond all belief.  It's there if you are sick - it's not a bonus program.  Yes, not calling in sick is nice, but frankly, in most gov't jobs, who cares if someone takes sick leave?  Nothing really suffers anyhow.

Any person who has completed the 4th grade can do the math needed to see that we have to rein in these over inflated gov't benefits to gov't employees.

I attended a candidate's night debate in our county this past Monday evening.  There is a tax levy on the ballott for one of the local school districts.  The guy who spoke opposing the levy pointed out that a teacher with 20 years of service makes $83,000 per year in salary, gets a $14,000 contribution to the state teachers' retirement system, and averages another $14,000 per year in health insurance benefits.  That's $111,000 total per year for a person who "works" 180 days a year - that's right, Ohio school years are 180 days in the classroom, less than 1/2 of the 365 days in a year.  And that doesn't even count the bonus pay a teacher can get for coaching and other "extra" duties.

That's absurd, and we're now seeing the result.  All of this was fine as long as the baby boomers were working and paying into systems that had far fewer of their parents' generation drawing the benefits.  But now that the baby boomers are retiring, the far fewer people working just can't support a luxury retirement for this huge bulge in the population curve.

People don't have a gripe with teachers making a decent salary, even if they do get 3 months off every year.  But the bloated bureacracy outside of the clasroom is just excess baggage .  Pay needs to be linked to performance and failing yeachers need to be let go.

Funny how many gubmint functions can be outsourced for a lot less money.

Bureacracies can not function efficiently by design.  No competition thus no incentive to be efficient. Once hired, they are rarely fired.  

Jerry, teachers around here (Mass) do not make 111,000.  After 20 years they get all the way up to $60,000.  Their pension is on the highest 3 years..so many study to get certified as a superintendent and do that for 3-4 years at $100,000. per year, thus enlarging their retirement.  aAnd while many of you think it is outrageous to retire at 60-64 years old, most teaching jobs will drive you to drink long before that.  So, you might say, change careers and work in the private sector.  Welll, you can do that but the goevernment pension offset law will reduce you Social secuirty by $1. for every $2.00 you get from the gvt pension.  Oh, if you put 20 years into the military,they will reduce your social security as aa reward.
While the outsourcing of many gvt programs initially save money, they seldom do for more than a couple of years.  Only the distribution changes, the management make much more than their counterpart in gvt while the average worker makes less with fewer benefits.
ALL SICK days used should require a Dr. note and should not accumulate (but for obvious reasons, family sick should be regarded as the worker being sick..someone has to take care of little Bobbby. :'(

Heck, I worked with a couple of painters at Sewell Ford body shop in Odessa back in the late 70's who made over 40,000. I saw bodymen make enough $$$ to have a nice bass boat, raise a couple of kids & live in a nice home. PLumbers & electricians get Paid,, doubt me? Call someone for a quote..Ive recently passed on the plumber & spent about 4 hours changing a faucet out. Thankfully, I had help, it woulda cost me about 200 or so, if I had paid to have it done.

http://www.teachersalaryinfo.com/average-teacher-salary.html

Cast your stones, piss and moan but you chose the road your on.

I'm not seein a lot of whining over the roads chosen by the people typing. Seems the real whining is about the roads others have chosen. Or am I missing it?