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HOW DUMB DO POLITICIANS THINK WE ARE ? « Teachers Fight Back

HOW DUMB DO POLITICIANS THINK WE ARE ? « Teachers Fight Back:


HOW DUMB DO POLITICIANS THINK WE ARE ?

Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois must think members of public worker unions and teacher unions are complete idiots. The governor is poised to force painful pension reforms on the public union workers and the teachers of Illinois. He is asking for concessions from teachers while not proposing any way that the state could replace some of the stolen pension money. He talks about “shared sacrifice”, and yet only the workers are the ones who are going to have to sacrifice.
I’ve previously proposed many ways that the State of Illinois could “share in the pain” of pension reform. The governor hasn’t come up with any way to return even one penny of the stolen teacher’s pension money. Now we see the governor suddenly popping up in Joliet to give financial and moral support to the workers who are on