News – A city nurse earned $350,000. A fire department battalion chief pulled in more than twice as much as the mayor. And a municipal park ranger took home $188,000 in overtime on top of his $71,000 salary.
I live in Vallejo. Every year they cut back on the Police and Fire fighters. It's gotten to the point that the police (or anyone) won't respond unless absolutely forced to. Even the 911 operator is sarcastic. This city is essentially lawless.
I made $72,000 last year and will make more than that this year and don't feel financially secure. I'm amazed at how much cheaper it is to live elsewhere.
Add to this that 25% of the new jobs created last year were public sector jobs.
Pretty soon we will all be working for the government and making 200k a year. None of us will have to worry about getting fired for not doing our job since we will all be government employees. What a great country this will be then.
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In all fairness, being paid a fortune in overtime is hardly like these people are being overpaid... "overpaid" can only be based on their base salary. If they decide they want to work 70 hours every week, and it's allowed, that's their business--and generally speaking, it's cheaper to pay someone overtime on a consistent basis than it is to hire people to fill the spot.
While this may be true, do you want a nurse, rescue squad member, fire fighter, or police officer that has already been on duty for 69 hours to respond to YOUR call? or your Mom's? Clearly better than no response, but get real. For this reason overtime is intended as an emergency stop-gap, not a regular operating procedure. Besides which it is a much better idea for the city to have 5-80k cops than 1-300k cop. There arise emergencies when you would want all five on duty at once, and one can't be five, no matter what.
..."While this may be true, do you want a nurse, rescue squad member, fire fighter, or police officer that has already been on duty for 69 hours to respond to YOUR call? or your Mom's?..."
Which is exactly why we need to totally privatize police, fire, postal service, national parks and forests, schools, everything! We know how to turn a profit. No overtime, indeed, none of this 40hr week crap. You'll get 30 if you toe the line. Puts more people to work that way. No full time workers, no benefits, no retirement gravy train, use your 401k tax incentives to save for your own retirement and Bush's Medical Savings Accounts to cover your medical. Forget Nordstroms, hit Walmart!
There are THOUSANDS of Americans, some who speak English, who would claw each other to death at the front door for these secure jobs we would offer them. No more over-paid, unionized parasites sucking the public trough dry!
Cynical, are we?