Public Pension

A teacher/administrator gets a public pension of $174,000 a year.

I've got plenty of beef with corporate CEOs and their exorbitant salaries, but let's be honest, there are very few of these jobs and they are being paid by supposedly what value they bring to their companies as deemed by the market. I fail to see how we can afford pensions funded by taxpayers at this high a level for people who ARE NOT WORKING. I mean, this seems insane to me. Every single hardworking 30 year old I know would fall over backwards for a job paying that amount of money - and that money would go towards starting a family, buying a house, saving for retirement, you know, good things for society...