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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Put a face on it. « Fred Klonsky

Put a face on it. « Fred Klonsky:


Put a face on it.

To those few non-teachers who might be following the discussion of pensions it must get mind-numbing trying to follow all the number crunching, revenue versus expenditure budget talk.
It isn’t made easier by the purposeful obfuscation of the Ty Fahner funded Illinois is Broke PR nonsense.
What gets lost in all this is the pensioner.
Yes. What Ty doesn’t want folks to see is the face of the retired teacher.
Folks. That could be your grandma we’re talking about.
I know. She can be annoying at family gatherings. But she’s not the selfish, free-loading, big-spending character