"Older folks did dick..." An over-simplification of us retired folks,, but the way he works in in to context is sometimes funny but damn near always on the money - even for a self-admitted Democrat. He makes more sense than 99.9% of all Dims when he takes on a real subject. He doesn't blame us retired folks for today's money problems, but he explains what the kids are bitching about - and what they should do to remedy things. Go to work, get a job.Stop burning shit down.
Here's some stats to bolster his arguments:
Municipal employer pension contributions are significantly higher—running between 23% and 29% (with an average around 29.8% depending on the specific system and whether employees participate in Social Security).
Measured as a percentage of active payroll, average public County employer contribution rates sit around 21.6%, while employee contribution rates average roughly 6.3% to 8.1%.
Public State pension contributions average around 29.8% to 31.3% of active employee payroll when combining employer and employee shares.
At this level with not enough new employees at all levels,
these expenditures are untenable.
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A tiger can't change it's stripes and no matter what comes out of Maher's pie hole he will always be a committed commie leftist. And yes.... The public sector pension costs are unsustainable. It's one of the main reasons property taxes have reached levels that are utterly insane.
ReplyDeleteBy every political test I've taken I'm a Centrist, but the left has moved so far left that I appear to be right-wing (which I'm not). I think this explains Bill Maher too, an apologizing lefty, but they have moved so far left of him too, that his pendulum seems more centered.
DeleteI agree with your assessment though, he is still a leftist.
Hes what leftists were when people like Hubert Humphrey and JFK were considered democrats.
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