Letters: How can elected Deferred Retirement Option Plan participants sleep at night?
I'VE BEEN following the Deferred Retirement Option Plan story for years in the DN. I hope those who created the program were thinking a cop, firefighter or other city employee making a normal salary could have a nice nest-egg payment upon retirement, so I find it absolutely ridiculous, repulsive, and unethical for any City Council member to enroll in the first place, and retire for a day and get re-elected.
I'VE BEEN following the Deferred Retirement Option Plan story for years in the
DN
.
I hope those who created the program were thinking a cop, firefighter or other city employee making a normal salary could have a nice nest-egg payment upon retirement, so I find it absolutely ridiculous, repulsive, and unethical for any City Council member to enroll in the first place, and retire for a day and get re-elected.
I hope Judge Nigro follows up with his lawsuit to end this nonsense. Joan Krajewski, Marge Tartaglione, Frank DiCicco, Marian Tasco, Frank Rizzo, and any other Council member who might do this - how can you sleep at night?
Jim Aversa, Philadelphia
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Good-guy trashmen
When city workers do something wrong, I let you know about it, but this is one day I have to give them a salute. There was a bag of trash that blew into the street and, instead of going around it, the trashmen came and cleaned it up with a shovel. Well done!
Lula Jones, Philadelphia
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An abhorrent Marine image
As a member of the last Marine Corps Command in Philadelphia, I'm writing regarding your front cover on Jan. 25. The "illustration" of a Marine in dress blue uniform, out of Marine Corps regulations, is unacceptable. Whether intentional or not, this depiction of a Marine is an affront to all Marines: active, reserve and former.
From the Marine Corps' inception in 1775 at Tun Tavern to today, Marines from or stationed in Philadelphia have always answered our nation's call, in all ranks from private to commandant of the Marine Corps. To quote Jack Keefe, Corps historian, during his address at Philadelphia on Lincoln's birthday in 1925, "and finally, as long as Philadelphia shall last, and as the Marines shall last, they will be as always, inseparable."
Capt. Matthew B. Clinger
United States Marine Corps
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It's not in the stars
Gen. David Petraeus is a very fine commander, but he doesn't deserve a fifth star. The five-star rank is anachronistic for this age and time. Otherwise, good luck and Godspeed, general.
Mark Anthony Vare, Philadelphia