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Federal Election Commission Cites "Problems" with Filner 2012 Campaign Committee Disclosures
You don't do your cause any good when you make ridiculous comments like this. There are still something like one third of non-governmental employees who have defined benefit pensions. Many, if not most, city jobs require more than a HS graduation. Certainly anything paying high salary does. When comparing like for like--attorneys vs. attorneys, engineers vs. engineers, professionals in government employment almost always get less. It is only in the lower paid classifications such as cashier, receptionist, janitor, etc. where they get more since many private entities pay minimum wage or a little more for such jobs. Only public safety employees can retire at 50 and they couldn't have more than 30 years service in such case, making the chance that they would be millionaires practically impossible. The ones making large pensions are retired department heads, assistant city managers and higher; those at the top who made less than private enterprise counterparts. The average pension for non-managerial employees runs around 25 to 30k per year.— May 24, 2012 9:22 p.m.