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XB3_00-25-195 2 points ago +2 / -0

This is what the public needs; persistent awareness of these assholes. They try to hide via endless small conflicts as they shape the world to their vision. The ones stateside are easy pickings, but hopefully we are capable of expeditionary politics and extraditions for pricks like Hansjörg Wyss.

A few other names to be aware of: Britta Lejon, Gabriella Lavecchia and Heike Erkers.

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XB3_00-25-195 2 points ago +2 / -0

A lot of folks took the fork in the road option, mostly those who were going to retire anyway. In some areas more than expected for this round. If you look at the plan, they are gradually creating incentive to leave the fed.

Up next will be reduction in benefits, and an increase in payments for those benefits. The single biggest one for a lot of long timers is the change from High-3 to High-5. Bigger hurdle for a good retirement. A number of younger people in the fed know they will never retire, myself included, it's just a rock in the storm and a front row seat to the show. That dependency will end eventually though.

tl/dr: No more cuts at the moment, looks like incentives in place for voluntary reduction.