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> No one eligible for a public sector pension is well off. https://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-nws-pensions-pa-top-earners-20171125-story.ht

• camgunz 8y ago
  OK I was dabbling in ghoulish overkill. But if you read that article, it contains this: "More than 127,000 former Pennsylvania state employees or their beneficiaries collect public pension checks each month, and most are comparatively paltry. The average paid out last year was $27,722." I'm a little tired of people using rare abuses to justify shutting down programs that people depend on. "ODB got food stamps", "this Penn State president makes $500k a year from his pension". The programs are still worth it, and even that level of abuse is beneath the cost of what it would take to combat it. It's also important to note that this guy is an example of "privileged white guy bilking the public sector", as we remember that the vast majority of fraud in social safety net programs is actually by providers of services (medical, food, etc.), not receivers. Guess which demographic most of those are?