r/Wildfire • u/Amateur-Pro278 • Apr 19 '25

News (General) Here cometh The Fuckening!! Hold onto your hats Feds, because you're about to take a large Republican dick right in the ass!!!!

https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/budget-outline-clears-way-for-move-to-reduce-value-of-federal-workforce-benefits/
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u/Ready-Ad6113 Apr 19 '25

They do know that firefighters and LEO have to retire early right?

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u/Hard_Rock_Hallelujah WFM Nerd Apr 19 '25

Nah, they're just going to increase the age cap until it's high enough that you're more likely to die of cancer before you're eligible to retire. No need to pay those pesky retirement bennies to dead people! SO MUCH EFFICIENCY.

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u/Amateur-Pro278 Apr 19 '25

They couldn't give less of a fuck. 

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u/Natural_Flan_2802 Apr 20 '25

You assume that they care

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u/lpfan724 Apr 21 '25

Work hard, Republican billionaires are depending on you.

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u/greengrasstallmntn Apr 19 '25

But Palantir, SpaceX and Anduril are getting a trillion dollar government contract to build the Jewish space lasers we’ve all heard about.

So this is really a net positive. MAGA.

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u/Amateur-Pro278 Apr 19 '25

Yep!!!!!!! Musks $288 million investment in Trump is about to pay huge returns...until the next admin cancels the contract. 

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u/TownshipRangeSection IED Hire Apr 19 '25

Next administration? Brother, they are making sure that all elections going forward will be skewed. Free and fair elections will be a thing of the past if the administration gets their way.

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u/dickwarlockstuntman Ed Pulaski was a Bagger Apr 19 '25

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/transportation-secretary-questions-atc-retirement-age/

Prepare to swing tools until age 70. They use the Trojan horse of ATC to change us, BP, DOD, LEO, etc.

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u/Sarcastikon Apr 19 '25

The ol’ bait and switch

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u/docsuess84 Apr 19 '25

I hate the two party system as much as anyone, but why the hell anyone keeps putting these chucklefucks in charge of anything just boggles my mind. Like how many times do you have to get Lucy footballed before it sinks in?

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u/Sarcastikon Apr 19 '25

No reach around I assume???

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u/OttoOtter Apr 19 '25

Not even heavy breathing in your ear.

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u/Sarcastikon Apr 19 '25

Well sheeeit

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u/realityunderfire Apr 19 '25

Don’t even get a Zyn kiss

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '25

You’ll get snowballed Copenhagen spit at best.

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u/Ghost_Pulaski1910 Apr 19 '25

I suspect these new rates won’t apply to congress itself…

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u/I_H8_Celery Parasite Type 2 Apr 20 '25

Not even laws apply to those jabronis

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u/BigWhiteDog Apr 19 '25

Come to Cal Fire 🤣. We pay 3% at 55 which means if you start at age 25 you can retire at 55 with 90% pay based on your last 5 highest quarters!

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '25

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u/BigWhiteDog Apr 20 '25

Nope. Not for state safety. 3% at 55. Individual local government agencies can opt to participate and can have varied plans, such as my old department, which was 2.5 at 60 but still max 30 years, with 15% employee contribution (they sucked! 🤣). Lower payout percentages, higher employee contributions, and older retirement = a lot lower agency contributions.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '25

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u/BigWhiteDog Apr 20 '25

That's after I pulled the pin and I appear to have missed this. Where did you pull that from as I'm not see that breakdown anywhere (phone searches are a pain).

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u/Past-Garlic-519 Apr 19 '25

You guys are so much better than us feds. But hey we have Duty Integrity and respect! Or that's what my afmo tells all of us...

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u/BigWhiteDog Apr 20 '25

🤣 Sure don't have much respect from your bosses!

Seriously though, we all hate to see you all getting hosed over and over again.

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u/SoggyNerps Apr 19 '25

Just out of genuine curiosity I know the benefit with fed retirement is agency contribution which is 100% matching up to 5% base salary into a 401k and we already pay 4.4% to retirement and can also max our retirement at 25 years for primary fire. Does calfire offer 401k matching and what is it? Because that’s always been the huge benefit of the feds to me.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '25

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u/Past-Garlic-519 Apr 20 '25

Jeezus Krist. If I was near California I'd bail so freaking quick. Down with the green, up with the red 😂

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u/BigWhiteDog Apr 20 '25

That's the great thing about Cal Fire. We are part of the safety portion of the Public Employees Retirement fund aka CalPers. We kick in 13% of our base check (doesn't include unplanned OT. That's ours to keep), the agency kicks in about 31% and investments pay the rest. Then at 55 years old, you can pull 3% of your last 5 highest quarters per year of service up to 30 years.

You can keep going after 55 but won't gain any additional retirement unless you have a higher base pay for some reason (such as promotions) which would equal higher quarters to base your PERs on. We have more than a few Chiefs that take a promotion, put in a few years after 55 then retire and come back as a "retired annuitent", often to the same job but get to double dip for a set of hours per year!

The thing that is a selling point for us is, unlike a 401k, if the stock markets craters, our individual retirement isn't affected. It's the state and the agency that take the bath.

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u/Acrobatic-Plum1364 Apr 20 '25

If they get rid of all this Im out. Absolutely no point in being a fed. 

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u/dickwarlockstuntman Ed Pulaski was a Bagger Apr 20 '25

Yep. That's my red line. 6C or bust.

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u/Ok-Device-9847 Apr 20 '25

Who cares, 2 more chains