Comments on: Pension Costs for Local Governments May Triple

By: WNY Voter

WNY Voter — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:38:40 +0000

Well said. It will be interesting to see if the lawsuit, at a minimum, will succeed in revoking the Senate’s pay – retroactively and permanently. Then we’ll bust in with a battering ram, cuz I doubt anything short of a citizen initiated referendum, or constitutional convention will cause these children to wake up.

By: OSayCanYouSee

OSayCanYouSee — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:14:42 +0000

Well, I’m pretty sure there’s no money coming out of MY bee-hind so maybe we should all just grab our pitchforks and… rebeltxrose hit the nail on the noggin. Why should we have to struggle to scrape together a retirement and then be charged with giving to the retirement of those Albany children who can’t even play nice together? And to make things worse, King Solobama is trying desperately to make our dollar less valuable than toilet paper. I am NOT sitting still for this any longer. Well… as soon as somebody unties me I won’t.

By: rebeltxrose

rebeltxrose — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:33:05 +0000

It is just simply a shame that a union of public service workers can hold all the property owners in the state in a strangle-hold. Our government won’t deal with it through income taxes that will hit everyone a little more equally. With the way the whole economy has turned, I’m trying to keep my own retirement fund GROWING instead of shrinking. If this burden would bankrupt the state, so be it! Then we could start over with all of it and hire people who want to work and NO BODY is exempt from state income tax just because of the job they held. THIS CRAP IS NOT SUSTAINABLE!