Letters: Public pensions under scrutiny

Regarding "6-figure public pensions" [News, Oct. 24], it's time to reel in expenditures. We don't have the money, and past administrations gave away the store because they weren't going to be around for the next term to answer for it. Do workers deserve a pension? Absolutely. I'm not here to bash the hard and dangerous work our uniformed services perform, but let's be realistic.

I'm not saying the uniformed services have to work until they're 60, but we need some creative thinking that won't hurt the uniformed services or the taxpayers, some of whom don't have jobs.

Thank you, Newsday, for promoting class warfare. The middle class against the middle class. I just hope some of your readers managed to make it past the headlines to Page A4, where you inform them that the average civilian worker's pension is $29,300.