Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

Our Recent Essays Behind the Front Page

Much Sorry with Delays
Birth, Death and All That Stuff in Between
How to Honor Labor Day, Every Day
My Yom Kippur Miracle (Repost from 2010)
Good intro to fly casting
Peach update, with pie
NYC update
Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
For NYC on 9/11, Sailors' Snug Harbor
Pickled Peaches
Water Shoes
Labor Costs in U.S.
Your "identity"
Good news about The Great Courses
Uses of Hot Pepper Jelly/Sauce, Chutneys, and Jams
A Saturday Drive to Litchfield County, CT
How to Pick a Kayak
Civilized: Fruit forks and knives
Loads of kayaking on Cape Cod
Psychology Experiments' Questionable Results

Categories


All categories

Quicksearch

Links

Blog Administration

Open login screen

RSS Readers

Add to Google

Subscribe with Bloglines

Tuesday, April 24. 2012

Welcome to reality, New York Times

The sense of entitlement, and the lack of a sense of reality in this NYT union-sponsored vid is astonishing to me.


Haven't these people ever heard of "saving money" and "investing money"? They almost sound like petulant children.


 





Do these people imagine that anybody gets pensions anymore, except for some government employees and some unions? Sheesh. Normal people haven't gotten pensions for decades. Mead discusses here.


(Rush has been on this too.)

Posted by Bird Dog at 13:02 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks
Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments
Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

I'm not sure why the New York Times exists, to be quite frank. It's no longer a legitimate news outlet. It's simply a mouthpiece for the dying liberal establishment--which unfortunately has spent itself (and us) into national bankruptcy. Perhaps the Times is destined to be one of the casualties, but it's not going to be missed in most of the country.
#1 Jim (Link) on 2012-04-24 14:03 (Reply)
Schadenfreude!
#2 Agent Cooper on 2012-04-24 14:20 (Reply)
Not much sympathy from me. What Agent Cooper said.
#3 Gringo on 2012-04-24 15:15 (Reply)
If they go on strike, they'll find no one misses them. Dah dah! Another example of The Arrogance Factor.
#4 jma on 2012-04-24 15:19 (Reply)
What I love about this story is seeing the people who run the NY Times crashing up against the reality of defined-benefit pension plans as soon as they're on the side that has to cough up the money. "Do you know, we've been looking into this, and these defined-benefit plans are kind of crazy! If we have a declining base of workers, why, they'll never be able to contribute enough of their future earnings to keep up with the demands of the huge pool of retirees. We need to think about a 401k model instead! It's just good public policy!"
#5 Texan99 (Link) on 2012-04-24 15:46 (Reply)
Deranged Mr. Market shoots an innocent Unicorn...Film at eleven.
#6 ScottJ on 2012-04-24 17:21 (Reply)

Add Comment
(Your e-mail will not show in your comment)

By commenting on this site you agree to the site rules listed here. Email
addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for email notifications.

Quick reference guide: [i] italics [/i], [b] bold [/b], [u] underline [/u],
[url] (web address) [/url]. More tips here.

Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

BBCode format allowed
 
 
A Chris Southern Consulting website.