NY Toll worker salaries..WOW
 

And we need to tax and spend more to get out of this recession! :rolleyes:

This country is in big trouble if the politicians don't stop catering to the unions and continue to hold the private sector responsible for paying these ridiculously bloated salaries and pensions that we simply cannot afford.

Fernando Ippolito, a blacksmith, took in more than $146,000.


I may be missing something but why does the Port Authority need a blacksmith?

Not a farrier. A blacksmith = ironworker.

Yes. $60,000 a year for a long-time public employee is terrible. We should be paying them minimum wage with zero pension, zero healthcare, and zero benefits.

Everyone knows it's the bloated former middle class, working 60 hours a week to afford a family and house, that has sucked this country dry.

Out of hundreds of toll workers, "twenty-four toll collectors at the bi-state agency have made more than $80,000 so far in 2011 — payments pumped up by massive overtime. Seven of those workers took in $90,000 or more."

Wow. Truly a scandal. That the toll authority isn't hiring more workers, but letting the workers that earn $40,000 a year work "massive overtime".

Because, you know, overworking current employees, versus hiring more, saves massive money in additional healthcare and pensions - wouldn't want that!

Oh. My. God. What a life of luxury. To earn less than $60,000 a year. With the opportunity to work 60 hours a week if you want a small bungalow and a family life in NY or NJ. If you're lucky and a "top earner".

Point made....next ignorant attempt to blame the middle class for the country's mess....Really folks, if you are gonna go up against Riot, you need at least some facts...

good for them. 100k isnt an extreme amount of money anyway.

LOL

Pay a $14 toll to cross a bridge and you will be thrilled that people who do close to nothing are making $100k a year.

Yeah cause they are the cause of all our problems. How thrilled are you when you pay over three dollars a gallon for gas while oil companies post record profits?

You mean all one of them? The one that earned it by working 60 hours a week?

Yeah. It's all his fault. He's out to get you.

Here is a fact. Retirement pensions will cost New York City taxpayers $8.7 billion in 2012, up from $1.5 billion in 2002. Please tell me under what model that is equitable or sustainable?

Please tell me where I blamed the middle class in my statement?

Typical democrat BS response attempting to turn those who favor cutting costs as opposed to taxing and spending as against the little guy. Feel free to respond to anything I actually said in my post. You realize that your parroting of the Obama position is backfiring against him as well as Americans are waking up to the reality that we cannot continute to tax and spend to fund bloated pensions that people cannot get in the private sector. That is, except those Americans that are union members.

He's absolutely demonic, got horns and stuff! Now the CEO of your local HMO who makes over 10 million a year, he's a good guy...always smiles when he tells you your mother's lifesaving treatment is too expensive! But of course, he's a "job creator"....keeps those funeral home employees in work.

Most likely the PA Police Department has a mounted unit and he is the farrier for a few horses.

Stop attacking the middle class! The poor and the middle class don't have to pay this toll increase to go to their jobs in the private sector. :rolleyes:

perhaps they could hire more workers and not pay ot? but that would mean more pensions, more health care expense, workers comp insurance....

it's cheaper to pay someone ot than to hire more employees. that's a fact, and explains why many companies are doing the same work with less people. the people getting ot might not like it, not everyone wants to work over 40. but in the current climate, people aren't complaining much. they're happy to be working at all.
so yeah, when someone says in a headline 'toll workers raking it in' it sounds wasteful. but is it?

as an aside, perhaps the govt could look at ways to take some hiring burdens away? they've cut the payroll tax to employees, but not employers.

What is exactly BS about her response? She posted actual facts about the salaries in question. You feel free to demonize middle class workers who make a decent wage through lots of overtime while ignoring the rich who just keep getting richer on the backs of the rest of us. You may be right about one thing, the American public may be beginning to wake up to the reality that it's not the poor and middle class that are the problem...if revolution comes, it won't be to target people struggling to get by, it will be led by them!

FTFY.

The model where you promised that benefit to people, if they would work a lifetime for you and the public sector, and now you have to pay them what you've promised them over the past decades.

Gee. It's not like this is any surprise. Considering the city itself negotiated and agree to pay these benefits.

Duh.

Who said they are the casue of all our problems but it is pretty maddening when the tolls were raised $4 per trip and you have people taking money and gardening making 90k a year. Makes you wonder what else is money being blown on. Making change in a toll booth or cutting the lawn isnt worth 90k a year of taxpayers (and bridge/tunnel drivers) money.

You think it is kosher that people who make change are making 80-100k a year of tax payer money? This after a $4 per trip toll increase?

One has nothing to do with another witch boy

You mean the 24 out of 147 who earned that working 60 hours a week?

Yeah, it's all their fault, horse boy.

Union workers dont work a "lifetime" for anyone. They retire to nice pensions which the rest of us pay for.

The old "city negotiated this deal" excuse. Because we all know that unions have never influenced elections in NYC. We all know that the unions would never strike or make out of touch demands to those same politicians that they put in place. We all know that union leaders know that it doesnt matter how badly they screw the city with these deals that the state or feds will ride to the rescue. Is Hazel Dukes your idol?

Too bad the toll increases don't appear to have anything to do with the unions.

Who is blaming anyone for anything except it is insane that they raised tolls $4 a trip and people who make change are making 80-100k a year? So it is ok that people who make change are making more money than teachers or police men or fireman? You know people who have jobs that matter.

Everything in state and local govt in NY has something to do with unions. To deny this is to deny all logic.

Really? The increases that were put in place to close the Port Authority's budget which the Port Authority could not balance in large part because of the salaries and benefits negotiated by the unions?

Not to mention that the job is obsolete and every toll collector could be eliminated and replaced by machines at a much cheaper cost except that the union contracts protect unneccessary jobs?

Or it means I read the news, and you jump to the conclusion that it's all the unions fault, all the time.

Good luck with that perpetual victim thing :(

The model negotiated by the same union officials who lined the same corrupt politicians pockets that they negotiated these ridiculous contracts with?

No. The toll increases that are on hold because it's illegal to use road taxes for infrastructure at ground zero.

But UNIONS SUCK! IT'S ALL THEIR FAULT! NOBODY ELSE'S! How DARE public workers get a pension! And overtime! It's an outrage!

You read the news? So you arent smart enough to understand that pension funds are the main culprit in the future bankruptcy of NYC? I guess the unions have nothing to do with that right? Just look at NYC OTB to see what the power of unions unchecked can do.

THE TOLLS ARE ALREADY OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!
$20 round trip across the GW bridge
$26 across the Verazano

And this is with the vast majority of people using EZ pass (no toll taker)

This is CLEARLY the fault of the EVIL UNIONS!

At least the other guy thinks he is a witch....

I'm so proud of you, you actually got it right....usually the religious bigots call me warlock boy.

Yeah, I think so...the same way you think you are a Christian (or whatever).

Bestest post evah....................
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