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raynernycz t1_jbpyxv8 wrote

The main benefits of a career in public service were pensions and healthcare. The older generation thought this social contract was sacrosanct.

Good luck maintaining city services.

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b1argg t1_jbqpf4g wrote

The boomers made out like bandits. Younger generations are the ones getting fucked

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hjablowme919 t1_jbsidfw wrote

This effects Boomers, too.

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b1argg t1_jbsyii6 wrote

Let me play the world's smallest violin for their fat pensions

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hjablowme919 t1_jbu6jtq wrote

Only boomers with fat pensions are government employees. 401K became the norm right as I graduated college in 1986.

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ctindel t1_jc3ps2a wrote

> Only boomers with fat pensions are government employees

Uhhh... we're talking about municipal retirees here....

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hjablowme919 t1_jc3rjws wrote

Then you have to include Gen X, and every generation that comes after them as well. As government employee salaries go up, their pensions will go up as well.

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