Wednesday, November 07, 2007  Politics: Not such a great deal.
Via Les Jones, we hear of the swell new Knox Co. Sheriff's Dept.
pension plan that we seem to have bought into. The new pension
plan for the Knox County Sheriff's Office is going to cost $100
million over 20 years. That doesn't seem like such a great deal
to me. All we get for this are some retired deputies and a term-
limited ex-sheriff. While Knox County couldn't have landed A-Rod
for a measly $5 Mil per annum, we probably could have gotten
Andruw Jones to bite after his sub-par season last year, if only
for the security of a 20-year contract. And really, who wouldn't
rather have a power hitting center fielder with mad defensive
skillz than an ex-sheriff tainted by a whiff of cronyism?
jason said...  Good point about the nepitisim, but personally, I
believe that a more attractive pension plan will help bring in
more "worthy" applicants. The changes certainly won't be
overnight, by any means, but when the field that one chooses
from becomes dee