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Old 10-31-2008, 04:21 PM   #76
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Originally Posted by The Yen Man View Post
Well, knowing someone that works for the city has completely turned me off on anything City Hall has to say when they're begging for money. This individual, gets quarterly raises every year, plus he makes overtime after 37 hours a week. He makes 2 and a half times ah hour during overtime, which actually amounts to an additional 35 thousand more on top of his salary just from overtime. And he even tells me himself, the work he actually does during overtime is a joke. So you have all these inefficient use of funds, and now they want to raise taxes just to pay more people like that? I really does make me mad thinking about it.
That is the ongoing issue with public sector, union-protected employees. I can't deny that.

However, I hope you have similar sentiments for the private sector as well, particularly paying high interest to bankers and high energy prices to oil and gas companies who now more than ever seem to be making out like bandits on individual wealth. While it's a little more complicated with private companies, the general idea is the same.
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