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Pension drainer gets three squares, 18 cents per hour, and outside bonus.

I, of course, go off on tangents . . .

I have heard some public sector workers express more jealously than rage, thus motivating them to argue me too too. It just seems a bit more personally rewarding, even if self serving, than simply confining themselves to insisting upon all around accountability. I still think Nader hit the mark when he argued that there are two heads to one monster. Excess on one side just makes for more opportunities for a bargain to look the other way. After a few cycles the system itself, the system for accountability, just sort of crumbles. Welcome to America where we aspire to look like Mexico, in more ways than merely adopting the Cowboy hat as our own. Perhaps state controlled enterprise in Italy might be a better comparison, coupled with a French attitude of superiority, with a full day version of the Spanish siesta tossed in for good measure.

If I had the option to get rid of my student loans via an 18 month stay in the big house (as an alternative rather than as supplementary damages) I could at least get a fresh start and not experience the joy of looking forward to the Social Security Administration off-setting my debt against my old age scraps. The financial impossibility of getting a law school redo makes taking the bar as much an impossibility as effectively as a felony, related to trustworthiness handling other people's money, would prohibit membership in the bar.

The PERB outside counsel gets to submit a bill, a bill to the public, to not represent the public interest in the latest PERS court battle. I'm sure it took some sleepless nights, though, to successfully plan the attack. It cracks me up, sort of like we are living in some Monty Python skit.

Let's all make a mad scramble to get all our savings characterized as a pension so that it is safe, safe from whom, I have to ask? The age old problem of the economic business cycle does not care whether you choose to call your savings just plain old savings or a fictionally more solid pension, neither do the investors with whom the savings (pension funds) are entrusted.