Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.
Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.
We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.
Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.
But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded.
A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
We have gotten to the point where everything the government does is counterproductive; the conclusion, of course, is that the government should do nothing at all, that is, should retire quickly from the monetary and economic scene and allow freedom and free markets to work.
Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.