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Saturday, June 1, 2013

CHICAGO TRIBUNE, ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, NAZI GERMANY, AND THE NATIONAL DEBT | Teachers Fight Back

CHICAGO TRIBUNE, ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, NAZI GERMANY, AND THE NATIONAL DEBT | Teachers Fight Back:

CHICAGO TRIBUNE, ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, NAZI GERMANY, AND THE NATIONAL DEBT

I want to thank the Chicago Tribune for contributing to the many reasons that “pension reform” didn’t happen during this recent Illinois General Assembly.  I believe the Tribune’s constant bullying and belittling of Illinois legislators helped to defeat “pension reform”.  The Tribune wrote dozens of editorials blasting legislators and trying to intimidate them into passing a pension law which would have deprived teachers of their full pensions and would have done nothing about the millions of dollars in stolen pension money. I believe several legislators who would have voted for “pension reform” failed to do so just out of spite because they were so tired of being bullied and humiliated by the Tribune.  Go ahead, Tribune, keep characterizing the legislators as cowards and incompetent fools for not passing “pension reform”.  We need all the help we can get.
If I was like the Tribune, I might compare the Illinois General Assembly to Nazi Germany before World War II.  Nazi Germany owed money to several nations and just decided they were not going to pay what they owed. The debt holding nations did little or nothing about the German actions. The Illinois General Assembly “borrowed”