Showing posts with label government working politicians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government working politicians. Show all posts
Friday, May 18, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Maine's Gov. Paul "Flinstone" LePage Exempts Himself from Pension Cuts
Maine's Gov. LePage Exempts Himself from Pension Cuts
Republicans lawmakers across the country have attacked public employees, cutting their wages, slashing their pensions and, in some cases, eliminating their bargaining rights.They all preach the need for fiscal austerity and budget belt-tightening.
In Maine, Gov, Paul LePage is neither practicing what he preaches nor tightening his belt. Even state employees are being forced to pay more in contributions for their pensions, one isn’t: LePage. He exempted himself from the new pension formula, reports Mike Tipping in the Kennebec Journal.
On top of that, Page's pension—unlike those of public employees—isn’t calculated on length of service but is automatic. He will receive three-eighths of his salary when he leaves office, $26,600. A teacher in Maine would have to work more than 25 years to get the same annual pension.
BTW: Over the past eight years, Maine's teachers and public employees already have been subject to more than $150 million in take-backs to their wages and benefits.
Republicans lawmakers across the country have attacked public employees, cutting their wages, slashing their pensions and, in some cases, eliminating their bargaining rights.They all preach the need for fiscal austerity and budget belt-tightening.
In Maine, Gov, Paul LePage is neither practicing what he preaches nor tightening his belt. Even state employees are being forced to pay more in contributions for their pensions, one isn’t: LePage. He exempted himself from the new pension formula, reports Mike Tipping in the Kennebec Journal.
On top of that, Page's pension—unlike those of public employees—isn’t calculated on length of service but is automatic. He will receive three-eighths of his salary when he leaves office, $26,600. A teacher in Maine would have to work more than 25 years to get the same annual pension.
BTW: Over the past eight years, Maine's teachers and public employees already have been subject to more than $150 million in take-backs to their wages and benefits.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Schools Matter: Rahm's Corporate Pals Running CPS School Closings ...
Schools Matter: Rahm's Corporate Pals Running CPS School Closings ...: After years of malignant neglect by the Daley Machine in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel is now in charge of completing the school corporatization pl...
After years of malignant neglect by the Daley Machine in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel is now in charge of completing the school corporatization plan that has fully taken shape since 2000. Emanuel last year appointed the former head of the corporate welfare outfit, the Academy of Urban School Leadership (AUSL), to head his covey of appointed toadies on the CPS "Board of Education." From the Tribune:
Who will benefit? Not the children and not even their test scores, as the Tribune story below the video clearly indicates. But that doesn't seem to matter to Rahm the Reptile, who believes, anyway, these kids are "never going to amount to anything." With his swindler cronies in charge of psychologically sterilizing these kids, Rahm surely knows what he's talking about.
Launched by a reform-minded venture capitalist in 2001, AUSL has always enjoyed a close relationship with CPS. But never more so than under Emanuel, who selected a former AUSL top executive to oversee CPS' finances and named AUSL's previous board chairman as president of CPS' Board of Education.AUSL is another of the total compliance lockdown school designs created to culturally neuter urban children, and now AUSL has almost the entire feeding trough to themselves in Chicago.
Who will benefit? Not the children and not even their test scores, as the Tribune story below the video clearly indicates. But that doesn't seem to matter to Rahm the Reptile, who believes, anyway, these kids are "never going to amount to anything." With his swindler cronies in charge of psychologically sterilizing these kids, Rahm surely knows what he's talking about.
Rahm Emmanuel is a living breathing example of how you can make much more money performing government work than you can in the private sector. There's Lot's of business opportunities there.
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