Those pensions and health benefits are too good to give up and a huge liability

Jan 20, 2019
5:31:23am

WDaddy All-American

that we all get to pay for. The private sector realized that it wasn't sustainable years ago and restructured. But the government just keeps carrying on with benefits that they have no way of paying for.

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How long does the gov’t shutdown need to last before gov’t employees decide to enter the private sector?

CrimWalCoug All-American in practice

1/20/19 3:41am

Those pensions and health benefits are too good to give up and a huge liability

WDaddy

1/20/19 5:31am

How long would/could you wait?

CrimWalCoug

1/20/19 5:33am

Yeah I agree. As an older employee, I'd be working out of a temp agency already

WDaddy

1/20/19 5:42am

I could wait awhile, plenty of banks offering interest free loans for those

califcougar

1/20/19 6:02am

FERS is not that great of a pension anymore and the employee is the one

RWaters

1/20/19 7:38am

Correct. The benefits for FERS are still good when you retire but the

cougarfan84

1/20/19 8:11am

I have a family member who is already looking for other jobs.

BeefNoodleCoug

1/20/19 6:54am

That's rough for fed. Employees required to work.

Great38

1/20/19 8:27am

The ones getting back pay have an incentive to stay

donnerstag

1/20/19 9:02am

This won’t happen because they would actually have to get a job where

Idahofallsblue

1/20/19 9:31am

Isn't half of Idaho Falls gov. employees?

Great38

1/20/19 9:40am

Who knows. Probably. I don’t think the site workers are furloughed. Maybe I’m

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