Comments on: CalSTRS moves to increase your taxes

By: Marten Purdy

Marten Purdy — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:16:57 +0000

Middle-class American:
“Actually, the reason they’re angry is because it’s becoming harder and harder to gain wealth through hard work. In the past 10 years, wages for jobs involving hard work have been stagnant, while shuffling money and securities around has become incredibly profitable. Rather than working hard, a much more effective way to become wealthy these days is by defrauding people through bogus companies like ENRON, or by bundling sub-prime mortgages into credit derivatives and short-selling them on the NY stock exchange. In these ways, you can absorb the retirement savings of people who have worked hard for their whole lives without doing anything of value to society yourself. Meanwhile, millions of mis-informed Americans whose retirement savings you took will actually refer to you as a “job creator”.”

By: Ftheunions

Ftheunions — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:09:45 +0000

Seesaw,
You don’t see what everybody else sees. Public employees are a burden! Their pensions and healthcare are guaranteed. The taxpayers are captive and have no viable options! Your deep love for some of these sloths is regrettable.

By: SeeSaw

SeeSaw — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:45:19 +0000

You paid for public services uscitizen–once the receiver has your fees, its his to spend however he wishes; if he makes payments to a pension with the money you paid for his services, he paid for the pension–not you! Who paid for your pension, uscitizen? Those public employees who bought your products?

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:55:31 +0000

I wish I had a job where I worked 9 months out of the year, had health insurance, and tenure on top of it, got a pension for life…………and someone else paid for it all…….who doesnt get any of this.
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As a licensed teacher- it was a GREAT job.

By: us citizen

us citizen — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:42:34 +0000

By: Hondo

Hondo — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:54:52 +0000

I imagine they own Apple which uses Chinese slave labor to build you Iphone and I pad and Mac.
The hypocracy of these people is off the scale.
Hondo…