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ktxhopem3276 t1_ja9bp5v wrote

Reply to comment by Devi1s-Advocate in Pennsylvania Makes Progress Toward Public Employee Pension Sustainability by greenhousecrtv

Pa pays teachers the 11th highest salary in the country. Teachers in most districts make $90-100k a year after teaching for ten years. The pension benefits take decades to become real money to a teacher. The main reason they exist is because when population was growing it was easier to promise teachers money later in the future when their students are adults and paying income tax. Now that population has plateaued, pensions are a trap to keep unmotivated teachers working until vest their pension.

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Devi1s-Advocate t1_ja9cqls wrote

Can you tell me more things we already know?

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ktxhopem3276 t1_ja9glbv wrote

It’s amazing that you can find a way to still complain now that the state pension system isn’t barreling towards insolvency. Everyone always says they aren’t paid enough and usually they just have an inflated self worth. Clearly you just want a reason to complain about politicians every chance you get because you can’t take responsibility for your own pathetic life. Maybe we should just get rid of politicians all together and print magical funny money so tax payers can pay teachers six figure pensions. The politicians are our own creation and if voters aren’t intelligent enough to figure out which ones are doing a good job and which ones are only serving their own interest that’s their own damn fault.

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Devi1s-Advocate t1_ja9hmm1 wrote

We already print magical funny money...

And politics elect themselves these days, its been a best of the worst scenario for 30 years...

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ktxhopem3276 t1_ja9ivxi wrote

Just because half the voters elect republicans that make shitty laws doesn’t mean they elect themselves

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Devi1s-Advocate t1_ja9j23i wrote

There it is! I'm complaining about all politicians, you're trying to play party politics...

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ktxhopem3276 t1_ja9jzk5 wrote

Because republicans are the worst politicians

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Devi1s-Advocate t1_ja9lox7 wrote

The fact that you think theres a difference between either party shows your ignorance...

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ktxhopem3276 t1_ja9m0zl wrote

No, it shows your inability to notice the differences and shows either you’re lazy or stupid or both

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Devi1s-Advocate t1_jaalow9 wrote

While u fall for the propaganda and think tou're making a difference by taking a side

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ktxhopem3276 t1_jab2w43 wrote

What is the alternative? The more people who take an apathetic view like you, the easier it is for one party to be worse than the other and still get elected.

Republicans are obsessed with making it harder to vote and easier to buy elections, shift funding to unregulated charter schools, lets companies extract natural gas from our land without paying an excise tax, refuses to address climate change…

If you haven’t noticed the difference, you aren’t paying close enough attention and your take that both sides are the same is lazy. Democracy isn’t perfect. It’s just better than all the other forms of government we have tried so far

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