Wakeup New York City Taxpayers

Life's tough for $144,000 garbage collectors

I was stumped at what to title this blog entry. I wanted something pithy but it's too early in the morning for the creative juices to be flowing. If you are a N.Y. City garbage collector, I understand you have little mouths to feed and that your job is tough but at the same time some where deep inside you must have felt that the gravy train couldn't continue forever.

There are people that sacrifice working and going to school to be able to make half of that sort of money and benefits. There are military members being told that they have to do more with less and in some cases the less is less personnel. So whatever sad story you have please spare the rest of us. Now if being a Sanitation Engineer was an actual professional degree that required years of schooling and training there could be an argument made for this level of salary and benefits.

The same for all the unionized city worked across the fruited plain. How can you justify your salary and benefits when soldiers living and dying away from their families in the name of defending those of us at home make far less than half of what your union bosses have strong- armed for you?