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Originally Posted by Hospitalitygirl
Are you dense? The FOP trots out families who have suffered a loss. Just to work on everyone's emotions. However, there are numerous issues here. Part of some sort of financial planning involves buying life insurance at the very least when you are about to start a family. Then, for the rest of smart planning, you should at the very least do some sort of IRA yearly, if not more. You cannot just rely on pensions. I never said I don't want police and fire to have living wages--but the current proposals solve nothing, and in fact will probably make the pension funding issue worse in the mid- and long-run. Do you want to retire to an imploded pension? But sure, beat up on me since that seems easier.
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Yep. Bringing out the widows of fallen officers is just poor form. This issue is so much larger than the tragedy of an officer being killed in the line of duty. (In fact, one could argue that the direction Nutter is ostensibly trying to take the city -- i.e., lower taxes, more jobs -- would help protect officers' lives much more than giving in to yet another round of concessions.)
Also, not counting on the pension is just plain smart planning. There are plenty of financial alternatives to protect the financial well-being of your family; but draining more money out of an already depleted tax base is not a viable long-term strategy.