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[stas]

Who are America's fastest-growing class of millionaires? They are police officers, firefighters, teachers and federal bureaucrats who, unless things change drastically, will be paid something near their full salaries every year--until death--after retiring in their mid-50s. That is equivalent to a retirement sum worth millions of dollars.
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So when you hear that government workers now make, on average, 30% more than private sector workers, you are not getting the full story. Government workers make more than twice as much as private sector workers, on average, when you include the net present value of their pensions.

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[morgulis.livejournal.com]

http://www.qualityhealth.com/relationships-articles/8-most-dangerous-jobs-world

http://money.msn.com/content/invest/extra/p63405.asp

[eta-ta.livejournal.com]

no more risky than oil workers on the rig in the ocean, or the commercial sailors, or pilots.
Firefighter's or policeman' job don't require extensive education, training or, frankly, level of intelligence that the above professions do, and yet their salaries are enhanced already - because they are compensated for the risk they are taking.
They definitely don't deserve DOUBLE of those salaries when they are no longer perform that risky job - or don't work at all.

Besides, why oyu drop the teachers out of that "deserving" category? The quote and the article @the link list them, too - are their work double dangerous as the private sector teacher or a childcare provider?

[stas]

Please explain how exactly they deserve 150K+ salaries. How you know who deserves it and who does not? How you know how much exactly they deserve? Maybe they deserve $500K and we are underpaying them?

[eta-ta.livejournal.com]

your argument is police and firefighters deserve double salaries because their professions are high risk. Teachers' aren't high risk. And you still claim they deserve it. So what's the excuse here?