NY Toll worker salaries..WOW

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Riot

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...

[Antitrust32]

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

[Cannon Shell]

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.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

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.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

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?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

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?

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.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

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.

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.

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Riot

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.

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.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

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.

One has nothing to do with another witch boy

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

One has nothing to do with another witch boy

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

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

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.

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?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

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?

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

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

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

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

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

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.

[pointman]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

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.

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.

[pointman]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

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...

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?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by pointman

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?

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.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

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.

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?

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

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.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

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

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

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

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

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