09-05-2017, 06:10 AM
Anyone tired of those HGEA commercials running all the time? I sure as heck am. Promoting all those great government employee benefits.
21 days vacation and 21 days sick, and 12-14 paid holidays/year. (paid Time off comes to about 1 week/month) HMSA PPO, Kaiser, or HMA health insurance. HDS dental. 457 deferred compensation account. Pension eligible after 7 to 10 years of civil service.
I am no raving socialist, but how about the folks working at Walmart or Cafe 100? Or Ace Hardware or any other businesses that make up our community? Think they’d like a few more days off? More sick leave? Some more health insurance benefits? IMO, their employers probably give them what they can, based on the realities of the marketplace.
But government employee compensation? Just bill the taxpayer.
http://assets.grassrootinstitute.org/wp-...tate-1.pdf
A growing trend is that rich people are a little less overt about their wealth, especially when they travel to poor neighborhoods. I’m no a big supporter of class warfare; people rich or poor should just about their business. Don’t project either your good fortune or your poor fortune on others.
Does everyone in Hawaii who struggles to make a living need to see HGEA's pomposity on their TVs every day? Is there a recruiting drive? Short on government employees, are we?
http://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2017/0...te-sector/
21 days vacation and 21 days sick, and 12-14 paid holidays/year. (paid Time off comes to about 1 week/month) HMSA PPO, Kaiser, or HMA health insurance. HDS dental. 457 deferred compensation account. Pension eligible after 7 to 10 years of civil service.
I am no raving socialist, but how about the folks working at Walmart or Cafe 100? Or Ace Hardware or any other businesses that make up our community? Think they’d like a few more days off? More sick leave? Some more health insurance benefits? IMO, their employers probably give them what they can, based on the realities of the marketplace.
But government employee compensation? Just bill the taxpayer.
http://assets.grassrootinstitute.org/wp-...tate-1.pdf
A growing trend is that rich people are a little less overt about their wealth, especially when they travel to poor neighborhoods. I’m no a big supporter of class warfare; people rich or poor should just about their business. Don’t project either your good fortune or your poor fortune on others.
Does everyone in Hawaii who struggles to make a living need to see HGEA's pomposity on their TVs every day? Is there a recruiting drive? Short on government employees, are we?
http://www.grassrootinstitute.org/2017/0...te-sector/