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My buddy was a fireman/paramedic in Clayton Co. Georgia. South side of Atlanta.
Started to work in 1974, retired 2004, age 55.
He is racking in a $65K pension.

This is insane. The pension is 100 percent of the pay. That alone, is absurd. But it gets worse. The pension is 100 percent of the pay earned the last 3 years.
So what my buddy did was, during the first 27 years he worked there, he hardly ever worked overtime, he had other interests. In fact he moved 2 hours away, to a town near the N. Carolina line.
With 3 years left to work, he BOUGHT a house in Clayton County. This to milk the union pension scam.
He would work a 24 hr shift, then he would work another 24 if someone called in sick. Spend the third day in his house, then work his shift again on the fourth day. Had a couple of firefighter roomates working the same scam. When he retired, he sold the house to another fireman.

His pay was about $50K, but he piled on $15K each year of those last 3 years, in overtime, and now will be paid that the rest of his life.
Only in a government job can you get involved in a scam like this.
In private industry, such as, being a pilot for Delta, the pension is 1/3 of annual pay.

These absurd union government pensions have already driven many cities in to bankruptcy, wouldn't be surprised if Clayton County is next.

For a comparison, I bust my ass driving a truck over the road and I get $65K a year. If I lived in Clayton County, I would be paying for my buddy's "Lifestyle of the Rich and Unknown."

My buddy was a fireman/paramedic in Clayton Co. Georgia. South side of Atlanta.
Started to work in 1974, retired 2004, age 55.
He is racking in a $65K pension.

This is insane. The pension is 100 percent of the pay. That alone, is absurd. But it gets worse. The pension is 100 percent of the pay earned the last 3 years.
So what my buddy did was, during the first 27 years he worked there, he hardly ever worked overtime, he had other interests. In fact he moved 2 hours away, to a town near the N. Carolina line.
With 3 years left to work, he BOUGHT a house in Clayton County. This to milk the union pension scam.
He would work a 24 hr shift, then he would work another 24 if someone called in sick. Spend the third day in his house, then work his shift again on the fourth day. Had a couple of firefighter roomates working the same scam. When he retired, he sold the house to another fireman.

His pay was about $50K, but he piled on $15K each year of those last 3 years, in overtime, and now will be paid that the rest of his life.
The month that he retired, he bought a brand new big Ford pickup, and a shiny Airstream to tow behind it. He now spends his time driving from Georgia to Idaho to go skiing all winter.
Pensions are not supposed to be designed so that retirees can spend all winter at ski resorts.
Only in a government job can you get involved in a scam like this.
In private industry, such as, being a pilot for Delta, the pension is 1/3 of annual pay.

These absurd union government pensions have already driven many cities in to bankruptcy, wouldn't be surprised if Clayton County is next.

For a comparison, I bust my ass driving a truck over the road and I get $65K a year. If I lived in Clayton County, I would be paying for my buddy's "Lifestyle of the Rich and Unknown."

nothing personal intended

you're probably aware of this but I doubt your union had the best interest of every worker at heart.The California pension system, thanks to the corrupt union influence, is way underfunded even in this booming economy. Gov moonbean keeps raising taxes to appease hiis public unions ( bought and paid for votes) forcing more and more tax payers out of California . And again raise taxes and so and so on....I wonder what happens when the economy goes through another down cycle? Bailout from US taxpayers?

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics...-blogs/dan-walters/article148181774.html

Don't be blue collar in a white collar town. That should be easily evident, but I was learning a skilled trade, got married and settled in and I just thought that good job would come along some day.

The light bulb came on when I read a book called "Night Comes to the Cumberlands",..written by a Kentucky historian named Harry Caudill.

In it, he mentioned that when the big post war migration from Appalachia occurred, nobody even bothered to stop in Lexington,...because the competition for the few blue collar jobs was too intense. They went to Michigan.

It's still pretty much the same.

Who knew?