Thursday, April 8, 2010  A simple Irish solution to cutting
deficits         This looks like a very sensible plan for
nonmilitary government employees.    John said...  Boy o boy.
Good luck with that.  Benjamin said...  The other bomb is publis
sector pensions.  The aura built up around public safety
employees is invincible. Pensions, and fat ones, after 20 or 25
years of service is the norm. Often, obligations to younger
surviving spouses can extend decades and decades into the
horizon.  U.S. military also can take lifelong pensions after 20
years. A guy can be 38, full of vim and vigor, and taxpayers
have to pay him one-half pay of his recent grade for the next
what--40 years? 50 years? Plus medical (VA).  We are bankrupting
ourselves.  I think the federal government should be pared to
16-17 percent of GDP and told if they can't do it for that
price, we are looking a serious alternatives.  randy said...
Wow, what an elegant solution in it's simplicity. The corollary
with health care and any other governmen