Illinois State and Teacher Pensions

[Fred]

We should be enraged by this. I am.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1771121,CST-NWS-pension15.article
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1769025,CST-NWS-pensionwidow14.article

SUNTIMES: In all, Beverly Lopatka, 66, gets $340,857 a year from the Teachers' Retirement System -- more than anyone else in the system, which is the state's largest government pension plan. And her benefits automatically rise 3 percent every year. "I'm really not comfortable talking about that,'' Lopatka said in a brief phone interview from her home in Battle Ground, Wash. "It was my husband's pension. He and his advisers set that up. I'm just the recipient. It was obviously always a risk, like any other investment." http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1769025,CST-NWS-pensionwidow14.article

Fred: Risk? You have no idea what risk is, you stupid freaking *****. Your retirement is guaranteed, courtesy of the taxpayers in this state. Everyone else in the real world depends on a 401K or IRA. Those can go up or down...in the past year, they're almost all down. Anyone in the private sector will be working until age 70. Beverly could retire at 50, depending on how many years she put in. I wonder what a real entrepreneur would think when Beverly justifies her ridiculous pension because she took a "risk". Risk is what happens to people in the private sector, when their 401Ks evaporate in 1 year. Your pension is guaranteed, and paid for by taxing the very corporations that our retirement depends on. If this ***** lives another 20 years, the state taxpayers will pay this woman over 6 million dollars. SIX MILLION DOLLARS. That's a tab for you, and me, and our kids,and every other resident of this state who continues to put their head in the sand when it comes to our 9 billion deficit in Illinois.

Please call your state rep and demand pension reform. Enough is enough.

 

[clonetrooper264]

Well dang...

 

[cranscape]

Fred takes on the teachers union and the government at once? That's not a good idea. They win most of their battles and have taken the moral high ground by the balls for years now with the most effective strike leverage on the plant. (aka, the students) Will you be podcasting on this?

 

[TheStig]

If only we got the same type of benefits as government officals. You'll be hard pressed to find any job in the private sector that still gives a pension, has dirt cheap insurance and allows for as much time off and job security. I also forget, mandatory raises.

 

[brett05]

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[clonetrooper264]

brett05 wrote:

Rules

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Can we stick tot he rules, especially the admins?

That rule has been broken many times over...

 

[TheStig]

brett05 wrote:

Rules

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Can we stick tot he rules, especially the admins?

**** THE RULES!!!! Rules are meant to be broken

 

[brett05]

And you wonder why the board dies out....*shakes head*

 

[Diddy1122]

brett05 wrote:

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No one here gives a rat's ass if there's swearing or not. This is the real world. People swear as easily as breathing, you need only walk down the street to figure that out.

And just a word of advice, no one is really going to listen to a guy who 1)is rarely ever on this site, & 2)thinks Babe Ruth is bigger sports icon than Michael Jordan.

And you consider your self a Bulls fan? *shakes head*

 

[mlewinth]

brett05 wrote:

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Dear Brett05,

Go **** yourself....

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[TheStig]

mlewinth wrote:

brett05 wrote:

Rules

The DON'Ts.
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Can we stick tot he rules, especially the admins?

Dear Brett05,

Go **** yourself....

Signed,

Admin

Lol, that was too funny.

 

[mlewinth]

TheStig wrote:

mlewinth wrote:

brett05 wrote:

Rules

The DON'Ts.
No Swearing (including misspelling of swearing, abbreviation of swearing etc..)



Can we stick tot he rules, especially the admins?

Dear Brett05,

Go **** yourself....

Signed,

Admin

Lol, that was too funny.

Hey, Stig, you get that jersey up on your wall yet?

 

[TheStig]

No, I am probably going to be moving soon, so I just kinda put it off to the side. I also need to find a frame.