Donkey,

Since when is content revered from posters? Deep thinkers generally are tortured….remember….El Collapso….

Keep it light and entertaining…..otherwise, take prune juice on the rocks for real relief!

http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article22543125.html

As for me, I have enough, if that answers your question.

No it doesn’t answer the question. It shows you don’t even understand the problem or choose to ignore it. What amount of taxation is enough so you can have “enough”? These pensions are unsustainable and no one in the private sector gets pensions like this. If the private sector which is the tax base can’t afford pensions for its workers how can it be expected to pay for gooberment pensions?

These pensions are devouring government budgets and you refuse to admit this unforgivable truth.

Pension payments are starving basic city services

I don’t believe for a minute that they are recording everything we do. I do believe that they are documenting phone calls, looking for patterns that signify something might be amiss. I make many calls to a relative in the state of WA. If, in the middle of that list of phone numbers, a number in the middle east pops up and then a return number from the middle east shows up in the calls I have made, the computer program is going to tag it. Then, they might investigate the origin of that call that doesn’t fit the usual pattern and then they might decide to listen. It all makes sense to me–what price do you put on your own privacy to insure our safety and freedom?

I haven’t even taken a position on such subject. There is no proposed sales tax increase on the ballot of my locale and if there is, in the future, I will have to review. There are many reasons to have extra taxes and it is all in your mind that every tax increase is just for the purpose of supporting pensions. The projects, services, and workers all have to exist before there are pensions.. As for me, I have enough, if that answers your question. I am not and never ever have advocated for or asked anybody to pay extra taxes for anything.

Bobo says, And pensions are the main reason that voters are being told they should raise sales taxes. These pension obligations are eating up the budgets of cities and counties all over the state.
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Sure bob, prove it! You can’t can you? But I can prove you are a DOOMER! State worker pensions make up just some 3 percent of the state budget, and that percentage is falling as the amount state workers contribute to their retirement continues to rise. Formulas for calculating pensions have been reduced and stringent new rules are being established made through collective bargaining. The changes at the local level are equally dramatic. According to data kept by CalPERS, in more than 185 California cities, counties and local districts, public employees have agreed to increase their pension contributions, reduce formulas and lower public costs.The truth, though, is that the vast bulk of public pensions are modest. The true focus of pension reform should be on the crisis of private-sector pensions that have eroded at an alarming rate. This erosion allows public pension foes LIKE YOU to play off the misery and frustration of private sector workers. Oh and Bobo,
Total CalPERS Fund
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$304.1 Billion!!!!! And that has nothing to do with raising taxes buddy!!!!

You didn’t answer the question. What amount will ever be enough?

And pensions are the main reason that voters are being told they should raise sales taxes. These pension obligations are eating up the budgets of cities and counties all over the state.

Devoid of content, as usual. Are you, perchance, a bot? A poorly program bot, but a bot?

Yea using Queegy thought that would seem. Like the progressive that believes it is okay for the NSA to record everything one does. We have all heard libs and conservatives baaa, “if you have nothing to hide why do you care you are being recorded.” Well if you have nothing to say then way is free speech of any use, why are trials needed to fill the jails? The truth is we don’t need trials because the system has degenerated into plea bargaining for jail.
In short Queegy, you are a RAGWUS sucking fool!! 🙂

Where do you see that I have said anything for or against raising this cap? How many citizens will be asked to raise the cap in their own locales? I don’t know, but if such is presented in mine, I would have to consider the details and make my own decision.

My pension is not the subject here–you insist on impaling me about the 109%, every comment, which I have countered every time with the information that I never got that amount because I chose an option with a beneficiary. Furthermore, even if I had gotten the full 109%, it is still an amount far less than the levels of the many above mine, even those with a smaller final percentage.. Jealously is not pretty!