Thursday, March 05, 2009

Retired public workers smiling all the way to the bank

The Boston Herald reports:
The Essex jail system has become a retirement playpen for ex-lawmen collecting thousands in state dollars on top of plum pensions for second careers as greeters, tour guides and urine jockeys, a Herald review shows.

Several of Sheriff Frank G. Cousins Jr.’s 37 part-timers, in addition to giving generously to his war chest, are retired former employees, including:

• Thomas Goff, 65. Goff hit mandatory retirement age in January as jail superintendent - Cousins’ second in command - with a $105,731 state pension. Goff then returned to work on a six-month, $14,500 contract as a consultant on the prisoner re-entry program. Since 2005, Goff has donated $1,825 to Cousins, a Republican and sheriff since 1996, campaign finance records show.
You are slave to them.You must work and pay up so they can have a better existence than you.