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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I think the 30% thing sucks!  As I said, I support retirement for Feds, I just think it's not right that people then go on to a lucrative second career trading on their Federal contacts.

I would support a system where your Federal retirement decreases commensurate with outside earned income at a certain point.

I don't want my taxes going to retirement for lobbyists.  But if someone wants to retire from a Fed job and be a teacher or something like that, I would 100% support it.[/quote]OP, I understand why you're upset here but would you like someone to decide how you can spend your retirement? [/quote]

OP here.  If they were paying for my retirement, I would understand if they had input.  Certainly in the private sector, shareholders have input.[/quote]But what would you approve of as an appropriate retirement activity? You said it's okay of someone's a teacher. What if they don't do anything in retirement but just smoke a lot of weed and are irresponsible? What if a person wrote a novel which made a lot of money? Or is it okay if they write a novel which doesn't make any money? If the person volunteers during their retirement, can I pick what kind of volunteering is acceptable? What if they volunteer full-time for a political party that I find offensive and consider dangerous to our freedoms?

Do you see what I'm getting at? I can't see most of us being willing to accept limitations on what we can do with our free time if we receive a pension. I mean, I did the work, it's only fair that I should be able to get the pension without anyone telling me what I can do.

FTR, I have a 401K not a pension and I don't like the idea of someone making boatloads of money in retirement as a lobbyist but we're not paying for retirement for lobbyists. We're paying for retirement for a Federal worker who chose to go on and be a lobbyist. In order to preserve our own freedom to do as we wish we have to accept that others will make choices of which we disapprove.[/quote]

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