Originally Posted by
Teacher Terry
I second what LDAHL said. I have a pension but if someone was shooting at me I would not be thinking about that. Also both police and firefighters have much shorter life expectancy from their jobs which is why they get their pensions so much younger then other employees. The police from all the adrenaline that goes through their bodies during times of stress which is damaging and the firefighters from smoke, etc. Also many pensions are not huge. In NV the average state employee gets 20k/year and their SS reduced by 2/3's thanks to WEP. That amount of $ is definitely not worth dying for.