TheWorx

Quick! note on previous post. I don't have any objections to how much the U.S. Government decides to pay its employees in salary and even retirement benefits; however allowing them to retire at age 50 at sizable fractions of their regular salary is nothing short of freewheeling on the part of Uncle Sam. The FBI, according to the present director, only accepts 5% of applicants. The draw may be service to country or sweet compensation. One is noble and the other self-serving but neither should merit the right to retire with partial salary unless disabled on the job. It just borders on the reason many revolutions are fought. They are ought against the privileged. If I have and you have, there is no reason to fight other than greed. If bureaucrats (including defense and law enforcement) want to ride "high on the hog," they and we should ask that it be Federal law that whatever benefit is granted to the Federally-employed, also be granted to the rest of us. Not to level th...

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