Public workers’ sense of entitlement

I’m sitting here in disbelief that, once again, the sense of entitlement by public workers is over-the-top.

As taxpayers, we should appreciate our police, fireman, teachers, and any other public service employee. I agree that we should always make sure that they are working at a fair and comparable wage to private industry, provide good medical insurance to them, and offer them comparable vacation and sick leave.

One of my concerns is over the bloated public pensions. A bloated public pension is defined as anything over the maximum SSI payment. The taxpayers should not be in the pension business, and certainly not providing any public employee a pension over $100,000 per year. In addition, stop the double-dipping of public pensions. Meanwhile, nongovernment workers are left on their own, working and saving for their own retirements, so why can’t the public employee do the same? The taxpayers are left with SSI and 401Ks, so why not apply this to public employees? The taxpayer should not be burdened with not only providing for their own retirements, but providing these bloated public pensions.

Another concern is when public employees call in “sick” to go to their state capitol to protest. They should be fired immediately. Do you think for one moment in private business, that an employee could get away and lie about a sickness and fake a day off? Again, this sense of entitlement is baffling.

Guy Crucil

Bloomingdale