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Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:01 pm to tLSU
Couldn't happen to a nicer piece of shite. 
The Landreiu's should be dead to Louisiana after this.
The Landreiu's should be dead to Louisiana after this.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:02 pm to tLSU
Frick Mitch
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:03 pm to Sentrius
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Couldn't happen to a nicer piece of shite.
Except the hit is just going to be taken by the residents - particularly the property owners - in the freaking city.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:09 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Except the hit is just going to be taken by the residents - particularly the property owners - in the freaking city.
Exactly why he's a piece of shite.
Judge should've just thrown him into house arrest or OPP already.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:13 pm to Y.A. Tittle
As far as I'm concerned, the administration should go nuclear. Let's go ahead and pay the greedy bastards who won't even negotiate to save the city. Then, the city won't have money to pay it's other obligations. The city should file for bankruptcy and watch those Union contracts and pensions get shredded. Then we can put the city back on proper financial ground. It would be painful, but it's the only way to reign in self-serving unions.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:27 pm to TDFreak
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I pay into a 401K. I do not expect that it will give me FULL PAY when I retire. I will have to cut back here and there.
You do know state workers in LA dont pay into social security right nor receive much unless they work a second job. Full pay is pretty rare. So it pretty much evens out with private sector.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:27 pm to BigPerm30
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It sucks because city pensions are complete bullshite. I don't blame the firefighters because it is their money. But now my taxes are going to spike to pay for this bad decision. Government employees should be on a 401k system like every other person in the private sector. That's an argument for another day.
Yep. Government employees used to get a cake job with low pay but they got great benefits/holidays. It was a tradeoff. Then along the way they said we want our cake job with great benefits/holidays plus we want great pay.
So they get paid as much as a private employee plus they get great benefits. It has never made sense. Anytime you hear a government employee screaming about a pay raise remind them of those amazing benefits and hours.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:42 pm to TDFreak
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pay into a 401K. I do not expect that it will give me FULL PAY when I retire. I will have to cut back here and there.
That's my beef since it's my tax dollars paying them to retire with lucrative pensions.
You realize that "lucrative pension" is based on a firefighter's salary. If the pension was so lucrative, don't you think we'd all be beating down the doors to become one.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:44 pm to THRILLHO
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They just had one that creates a large increase in spending on the libraries in the city that no one uses.
whoa whoa whoa I'm normally against millage increases but that was one I was strongly for. I volunteered at the libraries for a few years and can attest to their need. You might not use the library but they are a lifeline for people.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:45 pm to lob1284
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ou realize that "lucrative pension" is based on a firefighter's salary. If the pension was so lucrative, don't you think we'd all be beating down the doors to become one.
It is relative to the work. For a firefighter and his salary the money he gets when he retires is very lucrative. Some firefighters have been able to retire after 20 years in their 40s. That seems pretty nice.
So the pension may not be lucrative to a CEO but is probably pretty nice to a firefighter.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:48 pm to Mung
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And the City doesn't have it, so who do you think is going to pay it?
the city is getting $45,000,000 from the BP oil spill
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:49 pm to lsu13lsu
Who gets paid the same as private? I took a big paycut for my job but pension was 75% of my base salary plus better benefits.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 12:54 pm to lsu13lsu
quote:lullllllllllllz
So they get paid as much as a private employee
quote:pretty good but I wouldn't necessarily call them great
get great benefits
Posted on 9/4/15 at 1:01 pm to lsu13lsu
Better hours? I work the same hours as private...40 per week. Get better opinions.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 1:07 pm to Sentrius
I like how a problem that has literally bounced around every city administration for the last 3 decades is all Mitch Landrieu's fault. Why don't people get pissed at the greedy fire fighters? They are always bitching about something and have been since I was a kid 40 years ago. Buncha damn hose monkeys. And while we're at it. It's a pretty low brow move to run commercials touting their Katrina efforts when NOPD was out there too as well as countless citizens, military, etc. But nooooooooo, only the fricking fire fighters have to pay for a commercial to remind everyone they were doing their fricking job. 
Posted on 9/4/15 at 1:13 pm to tLSU
Lol, it's pretty hilarious how fast this board suddenly becomes so pro union and pro big government pensions as long as it's a democratic mayor that's battling them.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 1:17 pm to tLSU
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it has devoted that money to other things
Like tearing down the ghettos and building houses that look like this I'd pay 76$ a month to live in a house that nice
This post was edited on 9/4/15 at 1:18 pm
Posted on 9/4/15 at 1:37 pm to CoachChappy
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frick house arrest. Throw his arse in OPP!
This
He's such a warrior for black causes he shouldn't have no problem spending a few nights in there.
Posted on 9/4/15 at 1:38 pm to tLSU
As I have stated many times, my late fiance was Captain with the New Orleans Fire Dept. I know that his hourly pay was about $12-$15 an hour. Many FF (firefighters) have 2nds jobs, run their own business on the side, or take extra shifts or private duty jobs to support their families.
He worked 24/7 during Katrina and never got the majority of the pay he should have for that. He slept for weeks on a dirty, wet floor at the firehouse after Katrina.
His "home" firehouse had yet to be repaired years after Katrina and the FF had to triple up and work in the few firehouses that were habitable (and they were barely habitable at that!) Dennis Leary and other charity group rebuilt others because the city just refused to.
For months after Katrina he took extra shifts which were going into the muddy,moldy, houses full of rats, rotten food, dead animals and such, looking for the dead bodies of people who had last been reported as being there.
It was unbearably hot, smelled like hell and he had to wear a hazmat suit which made it even hotter. But he did it with no complaining, just as his crew did.
The men of the NOFD deserve better than the way they have been treated. I wish Mitch would spend some time in general population in prison!!
He worked 24/7 during Katrina and never got the majority of the pay he should have for that. He slept for weeks on a dirty, wet floor at the firehouse after Katrina.
His "home" firehouse had yet to be repaired years after Katrina and the FF had to triple up and work in the few firehouses that were habitable (and they were barely habitable at that!) Dennis Leary and other charity group rebuilt others because the city just refused to.
For months after Katrina he took extra shifts which were going into the muddy,moldy, houses full of rats, rotten food, dead animals and such, looking for the dead bodies of people who had last been reported as being there.
It was unbearably hot, smelled like hell and he had to wear a hazmat suit which made it even hotter. But he did it with no complaining, just as his crew did.
The men of the NOFD deserve better than the way they have been treated. I wish Mitch would spend some time in general population in prison!!
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