tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10101682.post550589364611351816..comments2023-10-26T06:14:58.639-05:00Comments on T F Stern's Rantings: Cadillac or Rolls RoyceT. F. Sternhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998813855197833260noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10101682.post-86212352390649954102010-04-05T08:23:56.983-05:002010-04-05T08:23:56.983-05:00Probligo, You wrote:
“…it might get your compara...Probligo, You wrote:<br /><br />“…it might get your comparatively priviledged (privileged) dander up.<br /><br />It included the idea that many of the 460,000 people added to your population of freeloaders over the past 24 months will be in the same boat as would I - without employment and without health cover.”<br /><br />Probligo, face it; you enjoy stopping by my blog with the sole intent of getting my dander up. You enjoy mild contention as long as we abstain from name calling. <br /><br />As for the 460,000 people you mention; the number of folks added to the unemployed is well above that figure. We are seeing job losses in the private sector in the millions due to policies intended to shut down the free market system (Cloward-Piven Strategy). At the same time government jobs are being increased which only adds to the problem, not the solution. While those out of work folks obtain a paycheck, that paycheck isn’t much different than a welfare check as the money which pays that check comes from the general public treasury. There isn’t room in a comment section to explain all the ways which the Obama regime is destroying America.T. F. Sternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10998813855197833260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10101682.post-70030405324498871232010-04-04T22:52:30.619-05:002010-04-04T22:52:30.619-05:00Well, TF, I guess that it is a matter of percept...Well, TF, I guess that it is a matter of perceptions, or perhaps pre-ceptions.<br /><br /><i>"During my tenure with the department these benefits, what you attribute to “free loading” off the state or city, was part of were looked upon as part of my salary and taxed by the government as income. "<br /></i><br /><br />At the present time my employer pays health insurance on my behalf. That is "part of my package". <br /><br />When my employment stops, so does my health cover. On that day. No extensions. <br /><br />...unless I opt to take up the policy from that date onward. <br /><br />...which I might, but at some $3000 p.a. it will bite the budget somewhat. <br /><br />Bear in mind here that I have no opportunity to convert the value into cash in hand. The value of that would be in the vicinity of $4,500 p.a. The "benefit" is non-negotiable.<br /><br />I do not consider "part of the package" as being "freeloading" at all.<br /><br />For the same reason, if "part of the package" includes benefits after retirement then that should fall into the same category as you have stated.<br /><br />My first draft of my comment was quite a bit longer. I chopped off most of it, perhaps with the thought that it might get your comparatively priviledged dander up.<br /><br />It included the idea that many of the 460,000 people added to your population of freeloaders over the past 24 months will be in the same boat as would I - without employment and without health cover.<br /><br />Is all...The probligohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17882103150181414348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10101682.post-78577996541917072772010-04-02T16:54:59.835-05:002010-04-02T16:54:59.835-05:00"I’ve held up my end of that agreement; but I..."I’ve held up my end of that agreement; but I forgot, the City has no honor."<br /><br />Exactly right TF, you did your part, and don't for a minute think that you're getting something you haven't already paid for. Most likely you paid twice what they promised to return down the track.<br /><br />This is something that a lot of people in the western world are going to find out the hard way. We are all forced to pay for stuff that we're supposedly going to get back further down the line. Here we have to pay 9% into our retirement fund, i only pay it cos i have to. But i know people who don't save a red cent outside of that 9%, in some cases it's because they can't due to the housing affordability crisis. Which incidentally is another thing the government meddled in and predictably effed up too.<br /><br />At some point people are going to find out that they're either not going to get anything back or they're going to be taxed to the point were they'll just be holding it temporarily before returning it. It's all thanks to all the government 'services' too many of us are addicted to, and it won't be a pretty picture. <br /><br />At no point do i make any assumptions that i'll get a cent of it back, like you said these bastards have no honor, no integrity either. At the first chance they get they'll @#$* me over, i know it because it's happened to plenty of people.<br /><br />This is why your founders believed in limited, small government and citizens being free of them. Government was never our friend, at best, it's indifferent to us, at worst it's our outright enemy.<br /><br />I hope there is some way for you to get what's rightfully yours, legal avenues or something.MathewKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385674205383405783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10101682.post-74709745884049094232010-04-01T07:45:15.897-05:002010-04-01T07:45:15.897-05:00Tigersue, There are many retired police officers ...Tigersue, There are many retired police officers who will be hit much harder than me; not having a second source of income like I do.T. F. Sternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10998813855197833260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10101682.post-73159517084038073672010-03-31T22:51:08.625-05:002010-03-31T22:51:08.625-05:00My Aunt was a school teacher in Utah for many year...My Aunt was a school teacher in Utah for many years. Retired early and this past year the state canceled the insurance of retirees that weren't old enough for Medicare. She did not notice the change until January, this was done in August. She died uninsured because of this change. <br /><br />It has been hard, we are trying to figure out the funding for her 5 day hospital change, but she would have been the last to want socialized medicine.Tigersuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10375000801423259917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10101682.post-11547159720848884262010-03-31T14:01:23.599-05:002010-03-31T14:01:23.599-05:00Probligo;
I’m not sure how to address your comm...Probligo; <br /><br />I’m not sure how to address your comment without sounding like you crossed the line and have irritated a raw nerve; but I will endeavor to explain some basics which you might not be aware of.<br /><br />Part of my salary as a police officer was in the form of employer supplied health insurance, of which I paid a portion for various upgrades which cover my wife along with the kinds of deductibles and plans. During my tenure with the department these benefits, what you attribute to “free loading” off the state or city, was part of were looked upon as part of my salary and taxed by the government as income. <br /><br />When I retired the package of health insurance remained part of my package, again an agreed upon figure. The City has attempted to get out of the agreed upon figure twice now; the first was when they wanted to stop paying the percentage as per contract saying it was too much. This didn’t sit well with the Houston Police Retired Officer’s Association or our lawyers; call it breach of contract in its most simple terms.<br /><br />Now the City has altered the percentage figures which were in force as pertain to the original health care package. I expect the same aggressive legal support from the Houston Police Retired Officer’s Association as this is not only a breach of contract; but an unequal treatment of personnel which is against the law.<br /><br />As far as your stepping over the line in making such a ludicrous statement, that I was free loading off of anyone; I will explain the definition of free loading. It means that you expect something for nothing or something at another’s expense which was not earned. I have fulfilled my contract with the City of Houston under the terms agreed upon and in no way do I expect to give away that which I have earned without standing up for a good fight. If you cannot see that then perhaps you are not as sharp as I thought you were.T. F. Sternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10998813855197833260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10101682.post-40231619098713671922010-03-31T12:38:00.554-05:002010-03-31T12:38:00.554-05:00Another preconception gone, totally shattered.
H...Another preconception gone, totally shattered.<br /><br />Here was me thinking that one of the last to ever go freeloading on the state, or even the city, would be Fraser Stern.<br /><br />Seems not so.<br /><br />How sad.The probligohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17882103150181414348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10101682.post-56794330234633544972010-03-31T10:19:16.688-05:002010-03-31T10:19:16.688-05:00Same problem here in OK.
I will render a very wi...Same problem here in OK. <br /><br />I will render a very wild guess. The uppity mukities are getting raises while the rank and file are getting laid off or are getting a sharp pointy pole rammed up their spine so they can be stuck up in rows along the hiway as a reminder.......ala count dracula.<br /><br />I heard a report here local that 90 percent of the school budget is personal. Holy smoke in the temple. I can't see in a country where we rank like 15 why they can't get that throwing.......... awwww you get it. <br /><br />I cannot reconcile all of the contradictions, so we must be being boiled in a fry pan.Starsplashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01104986136505112560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10101682.post-33988269991594542052010-03-31T07:05:35.191-05:002010-03-31T07:05:35.191-05:00What makes me mad is that the city just signed an ...What makes me mad is that the city just signed an agreement to build another sports stsdium in our city... If the budget is hurting so bad, why did they do that? Grrrr....Lucy Sternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15551301072676727397noreply@blogger.com