Maybe why college costs so much

limabeans
Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:13:31 +0000

This double dipping is truly destroying so many state budgets. Police, firemen, and railroad workers all boost their overtime hours by double or triple the year before they retire, because their retirement pay is based on their last year’s salary. NY State is such dire straits because of double dipping and because of the union “rules” that NYS was going bankrupt. They were going to furlough all state workers, but because of union rules this was disallowed, so more deficits and higher taxes will be needed instead. It seems that, “if they can do it, they will” but ultimately this selfish mentality will hurt our kids in the end.