USA Bus Lines

New York Question: How about we take way these ridiculous ****** pensions that city workers get?

I'm from New York and so now we are going to get taxed to hell to pay for City pensions for people are most of us hate. They get a GED get a city job through a Union then work a job for 20 years, retire at 40-45 years then get 3/4s or 1/2 pay for YEARS after they retire. Cops - scumbags Train Clerks - useless and every year machines take over more and more of their duties (in many areas they get paid to sit there and do nothing) Bus drivers - Miserable a**holes. DMV workers - Miserable nothings Unemployment Workers - I was unemployed in 2004 years and quit on them . I started using the online service. Ironically the only ones who make a decent effort are the public assistance workers So we have to get taxed to pay for BILLIONS in pensions while these people provide a transportation system that gets worse with every day that passes , not only that but their attitudes get worse and worse. What makes their 20 years of sh*t service deserving of that much money after they retire young but not my service? If I provide lousy services at my job I'd get fired. The democrats are really starting to let me down man, real bad, and I'm a lifelong liberal. Yutsnark - I'm not suggesting paying them less. I just have a problem with the extremely high tax funded pensions. These people retire making 45k a year at 42 years old then get 25k a year for the rest of their lives while going into private industry or flat sitting on their ass until they die 30 years later. They should have the pension reduced if they continue to work after they 'retire' Yutsnark - In my industry our pensions aren't paid with taxes. Weasel McWeasel - Please don't leave bullsh*t responses. Cops now need two years of college education but they are basically bullies or high priced security guards. And as for tokens -- we haven't used them in over 10 years. You ever heard of a metrocard? Also, in this economy a vile of crack does not cost the price of two train rides

Public Comments

1. Well, I don't think they'll do a better job if you pay them less. But it would be a fine idea to set and enforce performance standards. Pensions are a good thing. If yours isn't as generous, your union should get more aggressive.
2. NEW YORK HAS A MAJOR PROBLEM. THE LIBERALS CONTROL IT.
3. you know what they say, if ya cant beat em join em
4. No way I'd turn that deal down. Sounds like the people that approved it are really fucking stupid.Maybe we should vote all those incompetent fucks out of office.
5. California and New York are the same. Two states that are billions in debt. Both heavily Democratically controlled states.
6. Cops in New York, are "scumbags"??????? Dude.....I'm from New York........and you wouldn't want their job at ANY price! You try driving a bus thru Midtown at rush hour....... you try sittng in some god forsaken subway booth in the Bronx where some crackhead would kill you for two tokens. When you take those risks every day for 20 years , then we'll see how you feel about those pensions. and you WISH you could get on the NYPD with just a GED. Not a chance.
7. I'd prefer to see the lifetime pensions for politicians to cease, particularly those convicted of fraud, and those in prison. I'd prefer any retired person living in luxury and making thousands in dividends and pensions per year give up Social Security payments, Medicare, etc. I cannot understand why the general, hard working general public have to continue to pay for them at the expense of those living on measly social security checks and being denied health care and being forced to do without necessary life saving prescriptions.