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Perry collects state pension and salary

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They want to attack public workers ? as screwing the taxpayers lol...


GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry is collecting his state pension while also drawing his salary as Texas governor, according to documents released Friday.

The Texas Tribune reports Perry, 61, officially retired in January and is drawing on his retirement benefits early. He now collects $7,698.96 a month on top of his $150,000 salary. All told, that would mean he makes more than $242,000 a year before taxes.



Report: Perry collects state pension and salary
 
collecting a state govt. pension and a state govt. salary?

in my state, that's a crime.
 
They want to attack public workers ? as screwing the taxpayers lol...


GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry is collecting his state pension while also drawing his salary as Texas governor, according to documents released Friday.

The Texas Tribune reports Perry, 61, officially retired in January and is drawing on his retirement benefits early. He now collects $7,698.96 a month on top of his $150,000 salary. All told, that would mean he makes more than $242,000 a year before taxes.



Report: Perry collects state pension and salary

No one has attacked the public workers for taking the salaries. We've attacked the government for promising those outrageous pensions, to begin with.
 
No one has attacked the public workers for taking the salaries. We've attacked the government for promising those outrageous pensions, to begin with.

NOT TRUE...teaparty supported govs ..like Scott Walker...John Kasich and Rick Scott..their first order of business was attacking thier public workers...and each one of them have ratings in the pits..btw...
 
NOT TRUE...teaparty supported govs ..like Scott Walker...John Kasich and Rick Scott..their first order of business was attacking thier public workers...

That's not true and you know it.

and each one of them have ratings in the pits..btw...

Ain't it amazing how people are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face?
 
That's not true and you know it.



Ain't it amazing how people are willing to cut off their nose to spite their face?


That is precisely the truth...thats why theres a recall going on in wisc...thats why rick scotts favorable is in the low 20s and kasich just got thoroughly spanked 61% on a recall of his policies...
 
That is precisely the truth...thats why theres a recall going on in wisc...thats why rick scotts favorable is in the low 20s and kasich just got thoroughly spanked 61% on a recall of his policies...

Post a link showing us where Rick Scott attacked public workers. Thanks in advance.
 
They want to attack public workers ? as screwing the taxpayers lol...


GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry is collecting his state pension while also drawing his salary as Texas governor, according to documents released Friday.

The Texas Tribune reports Perry, 61, officially retired in January and is drawing on his retirement benefits early. He now collects $7,698.96 a month on top of his $150,000 salary. All told, that would mean he makes more than $242,000 a year before taxes.



Report: Perry collects state pension and salary

I'm confused. If Perry has officially retired, why is he still serving as Governor of Texas?
 
Post a link showing us where Rick Scott attacked public workers. Thanks in advance.

Your welcome in advance.

SCOTT: We’ve had plenty of success so far. Not enough…In Florida, unemployment rate’s gone from 12 percent down to 10.7. We’re still above the national average, but we’ve generated 87,200 private sector jobs — private sector! And we have 15,000 less government jobs in the state of Florida. [Applause] Government doesn’t create jobs.

Using the firing of 15,000 workers as an applause line, and maintaining that other state workers don't have "real jobs" -- priceless.
 
It tells in the article how the system works.

What I guess I'm asking is where the public announcement of Perry's retiring is. How is it that the citizens of Texas whom he serves don't know this?
 
What I guess I'm asking is where the public announcement of Perry's retiring is. How is it that the citizens of Texas whom he serves don't know this?

He is not really retireing. That probably is not the most accurate descriptor for it although it does raise an eyebrow as a head line.
 
From what I get from the article, Perry is qualified for his pension based on military service, state employment, and age exceeding 80 years. Nothing whatever to do with his tenure as governor, which I look at as a second job. I would guess that there are a great many ex government workers in the same position. I would guess that there even a fair amount of government retirees who are now working as consultants to government. Do you propose that all government retirees who now have a second job give up their retirement, or just Perry? I do think that a retirement for a government worker of roughly 90K/year is a little excessive, but I doubt that Perry is the only one.
 
Your welcome in advance.



Using the firing of 15,000 workers as an applause line, and maintaining that other state workers don't have "real jobs" -- priceless.

Obama caused millions of private sector jobs to be destroyed. So, by your standard, he attacked the private sector.
 
Obama caused millions of private sector jobs to be destroyed. So, by your standard, he attacked the private sector.

Did you reply to the wrong thread?
 
Let's handle this the republican way :

Fire Perry and then rehire him as an independent contractor with reduced salary, no benefits, and no vacation.
 
Let's handle this the republican way :

Fire Perry and then rehire him as an independent contractor with reduced salary, no benefits, and no vacation.

Or, better yet, let's outsource the job to India or China. Someone from there will work as Texas governor much cheaper than anyone in the U.S.
 
Or, better yet, let's outsource the job to India or China. Someone from there will work as Texas governor much cheaper than anyone in the U.S.

true. why pay more for governor just to protect overpriced labor? that's obviously socialism. better to let the market decide what a governor should earn.
 
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They want to attack public workers ? as screwing the taxpayers lol...


GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry is collecting his state pension while also drawing his salary as Texas governor, according to documents released Friday.

The Texas Tribune reports Perry, 61, officially retired in January and is drawing on his retirement benefits early. He now collects $7,698.96 a month on top of his $150,000 salary. All told, that would mean he makes more than $242,000 a year before taxes.



Report: Perry collects state pension and salary

I fail to understand the logic of this post. Let me see if I have this straight:
In the OP you demonize the absurd compensation a public worker receives while at the same time demonizing efforts to rein in these excesses?

Pick your poison Ipast.
 
Its a bad system but that's how it works. In some ways its no different than a senior aged person drawing social security and a pay check at the same time.

The pension is, if I'm not mistaken, 50% that the state put in and 50% he put in out of his paychecks. Plus whatever interest it had earned over the decades. He has served in office enough years combined with his age to draw his pension money - or he could have left it to grow to still more.

On the flip side, I think by claiming the pension the government no longer has to match his contributions, but not sure about that.
 
I fail to understand the logic of this post. Let me see if I have this straight:
In the OP you demonize the absurd compensation a public worker receives while at the same time demonizing efforts to rein in these excesses?

Pick your poison Ipast.

I think Ipast's point is that the law should be changed so that only Democrats can draw both retirement and salary, but it should be outlawed to Republicans.

Most people's ethics on politics are exactly partisan, so that's not a rare perspective.
 
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