Adult children ratting out their retired civil service parents in the media??? [View All]

[Peregrine Took]

Incredibly, I've heard two separate instances here in Chicago lately regarding adult children spewing forth about their elderly parents and how much money they collect in their pensions - strongly implying its TOO MUCH!! ("Please take it away from them!!")

What could possibly be their motivation to do so?

In the first instance the son of a retired policeman stated that he and his dad often chuckle about how much money the dad gets in his pension check every month. The dad took early retirement and plans to live a long, long life collecting this huge amount of moolah rolling in every month!! Implying "hahahahha, tax payers are such schnooks!" I can't see for the life of me why anyone, or their offspring, would want to crow about getting too much money - if its true at all! Do they want their pension to be cut? Does the kid want the parent to be poor and dependent on THEM?

This morning I heard a woman who SAID she was the daughter of two retired teachers, also decrying the HUGE pension that her elderly mom was drawing.
Am I insane or what is going on here? Is she mad the mom won't share it with her? Needless to say the hosts to whom she was ratting out her mom loved hearing every bit of it as the media loves to screw over public employees - current and retired.

I don't know about the cop's pension but I'm pretty sure the numbers dear daughter rattled off about her poor mom were way, way extravagant. She actually said that they keep giving her mother "more and more money" every year - like they are just sitting around thinking up ways to shower pensioners with money! I smell a rat - especially in an election year (See Pawlenty's comments from yesterday about public employees being "overpaid" and "over benefited.")

I'm beginning to wonder if both of these "kids" weren't some kind of plants to spread these false, inflated stories in the media, further stirring the "us vs them" pot against government workers.