in the waning moments of Monday....

[lagilman]

HARD MAGIC is off to Madame Editrix. So now I get to not think about it (hah) for a month or so.

Now I get to play in an alternate 15th century full-time. Wheee!



And some 21st century life intruding, because not all of you read the WSJ...

"At a time when scores of companies are freezing pensions for their workers, some are quietly converting their pension plans into resources to finance their executives' retirement benefits and pay.

In recent years, companies from Intel Corp. to CenturyTel Inc. collectively have moved hundreds of millions of dollars of obligations for executive benefits into rank-and-file pension plans. This lets companies capture tax breaks intended for pensions of regular workers and use them to pay for executives' supplemental benefits and compensation....Generally, only the executives are aware this is being done. Benefits consultants have advised companies to keep quiet to avoid an employee backlash."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121761989739205497.html

Uh-huh. If you work for a corp? Might want to poke around in your company's books... (and if you've got a Union? Use it. This is what you're paying those dues for!)

Comments

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

You keep thinking maybe it will stop and they won't keep stooping lower and lower but - no!

[lagilman]

Low? There's no low to someone Entitled to Their Money Because They're Worth it And We're Not...

(I've had many, er, discussions with people who think that what they do is 'worth' more, simply because they make more money, and extend that value to extremes. There is no shame in them because they don't see what they're doing is wrong. They've 'earned/deserve' this and the rest of us haven't/don't. I snarl but I do not bite. Mainly because I'm afraid of what I might catch.)

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

that is what amazes me most about this whole last 7 nightmarish years; they keep topping themselves in the depths to which they'll go. No shame at all. No semblance of shame. As you say, there's only Entitlement. It really boggles me, coming from a humble small town immigrant household upbringing as I do.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

What gets me is that they then turn around and point at the people who've been shafted and bitch that *they're* the entitlement queens. Want to get something back from Social Security after paying out to it all your life? Entitlement whore sucking from the Government tit. Expect (as my parents did) that after you retire they won't cut your medical benefits in half? Well like it or go back to work, because if you even attempt to complain, they'll cut you off completely.

Notice how every safety net program that keeps people off the streets and from eating dog food in their retirement years is now an "entitlement" program to which they are not entitled?