Stop picking on public pensions

Isn't it about time that the Baltimore Sunpapers stop denigrating Baltimore City fire and police pension members and also state of Maryland employees?

When I was a 12 year-old Sunpapers delivery boy (65 years ago), the Sunpapers were against firefighters getting a raise, and, in my own way, I opposed this by stuffing Local 734 American Federation of Labor pamphlets citing reasons for the raise into my 200 paper route newspapers.

I might add that as a retired Maryland state employee, I do not receive anywhere near the $35,000 per year amount quoted in your recent articles for State Employees, and I know most retired Fire and Police pensioners do not receive the excessive $63,000 per year amounts as stated in recent issues either.

Carl C. Dederer Jr., Overlea