Originally posted by zeeblebotwhat is your issue here? Are you opposed to pensions? Do you think pensions are a bad idea?
we in California can commiserate.
do public servants in the UK get to retire at 55 with full pension?
Do you think public servants should not have pensions? If so, do you think to compensate for the loss of their pension they shoudl be paid more per year so they can save the equivalent amount for their retirement?
Or is your argument based on nothing more than envy and idiocy?
envy made greener due the fact that i'm paying for it, with no say in it!
if it was a private company paying their own employees off at 55 instead of 65, i wouldn't complain at all.
do you seriously believe the majority of non-public-servant citizens in California would approve a retirement age of 55 for the public servants and an age of 65 for themselves?
First up, it's £400 a year by 2014; it could fall after that (it will fall according to Unison) but both LibDems and Tories have had the public sector in their sights for months, so facts won't be top of the agenda.
Let me tell you, the school dinner ladies, the cleaners, the school escorts don't have 'gold-plated pensions'; if they can afford to hand over roughly six per cent of their salary, they will, at the moment get a tiny pittance in retirement which will count against claims for means-tested benefits. It's very simple; public sector workers are paid from the public purse either by a decent salary and occupational pension or through benefits in exactly the same way that low private sector wages and pensions are subsidized by the taxpayer.
Originally posted by zeeblebotDon't you have the right to vote?
envy made greener due the fact that i'm paying for it, with no say in it!
if it was a private company paying their own employees off at 55 instead of 65, i wouldn't complain at all.
do you seriously believe the majority of non-public-servant citizens in California would approve a retirement age of 55 for the public servants and an age of 65 for themselves?
Originally posted by PalynkaWell, I don't think the government should give handouts to people who are able to work without a good reason (i.e. there is no work for them to do). I've just had my say and I voted for a party who wants to raise the retirement age to 67. Others also had their say.
He also has the right to express his political opinion.
I also don't see why public servants should retire earlier (although I don't think this is true for the UK).
