{"id":8229,"date":"2010-06-01T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2010-06-01T14:18:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T21:18:30","slug":"millionaire-cops-teachers-and-firemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8229","title":{"rendered":"Millionaire Cops, Teachers, And Firemen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> police and firefighters are becoming famous nationwide in the debate over how much public employees should be making. While we&#8217;re perfectly happy with teachers, policemen, and fireman making six-figures it appears that many people, like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/digitalrules\/2010\/06\/the-millionaire-cop-next-door\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes.com<\/a><\/strong> blogger <strong>Rich Karlgaard<\/strong>, seem to think thank is a problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who are America&#8217;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&#8211;until death&#8211;after retiring in their mid-50s. That is equivalent to a retirement sum worth millions of dollars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, maybe California is finally doing something right. Karlgaard quoted a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/local\/carlsbad\/article_6d50d589-bfab-56ef-820d-59123c42bc83.html\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> on how much <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> police and firefighters make. Truthfully, the best way to get the best people for the job is to pay them well. We really don&#8217;t want to be pulled over by police officers who have to work two jobs to make ends meet. Seriously.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/digitalrules\/2010\/06\/the-millionaire-cop-next-door\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbadistan police and firefighters are becoming famous nationwide in the debate over how much public employees should be making. While we&#8217;re perfectly happy with teachers, policemen, and fireman making six-figures it appears that many people, like Forbes.com blogger Rich Karlgaard, seem to think thank is a problem. Who are America&#8217;s fastest-growing class of millionaires? They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8230,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}