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bmore t1_iyndmq7 wrote

I am not talking about the performance of an individual. You keep talking about if they have earned their pay. I would argue they in fact have not. But you seem to think getting rid of them and offering to pay a new person less is something that will improve our ability to hire more competent leadership, which I find fascinating.

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bmore t1_iykz4jj wrote

Why is it infuriating that we pay the schools CEO a reasonable if not uncompetitive salary for a position of extraordinary challenge and responsibility? Do you think we'll attract stronger talent if we pay that position less?

We have audits and we have an independent OIG. I swear to god the folks that complain the most about our fucked government know the least about it.

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bmore t1_iycmcix wrote

A standard bike lane next to parked cars that kills bicycle riders and increases crossing distance for pedestrians resulting in them being hit and killed as well is the model that should be followed? Brilliant.

Dropping a yield for peds sign that the city runs out of because they're run over so much is the model? Also brilliant.

We should definitely listen to you and not peer reviewed research on what makes safer streets.

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bmore OP t1_iy87zt5 wrote

Or in Hogan's case:

Follow all of these steps knowing it's vaporware, but that it will fool the electorate, so you can disrupt Maryland transit plans and continue using your power as governor to fund road widenings near your real estate firm's (that you did not put in a blind trust) holdings to make them more valuable.

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bmore t1_ixzd4cv wrote

>Aren’t our elected officials supposed to do this for us too?

Well it really depends on what voters are asking of them. I'd certainly like them to expand worker rights and benefits. But that doesn't seem to be popular enough in this country. As I said, people are more interested in tearing down benefits for others than organizing for better conditions for all.

IMO the Fire/EMS pension vote should have been a loser that threw people out of office, but obviously our populace doesn't care that much about first responders getting good benefits given it was a politically inconsequential vote. That sucks and I disagree with it, but I'm clearly in the minority.

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bmore t1_ixzc5xz wrote

They get 2.5% of their highest salary x years served, and if elected after 2016 it's capped at 60% of their highest salary.

The pension for someone who ran for council, stayed on until they were term limited at 8 years, and retired would be about $15k annually. So anyone trying to use it as a get rich quick scheme as implied by folks in this thread would be...bad at getting rich quick? There are better ways to make money.

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