In the New York Police Department, they have a simple system. Your pension is based on
your pay in your final year. So when anyone reaches the final year, everybody cooperates
to give him about 1,000 hours of overtime. And he retires - in some cases after a mere 20
years of service - with this large income. Well, of course his fellow employees help him
cheat the system. In substance, that's what's happened. But the one thing I guarantee you
is that nobody has the least sense of shame. They soon get the feeling they're entitled to do
it. Everybody did it before, everybody's doing it now - so they just keep doing it.
-Seeking Wisdom
