Sunday, March 4, 2012

Governor Quinn: What if this happened to you? « Fred Klonsky

Governor Quinn: What if this happened to you? « Fred Klonsky:

Governor Quinn: What if this happened to you?

Comments from the petition to Governor Quinn to restore funding to TRIP, the state’s health insurance for retired teachers.

Governor Quinn, what if your health insurance would SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE with out any warning and with no way to increase your monthly income and you were among the retired, who have worked hard all of their career? – Patricia

After 31 years of dedicated teaching working well over 60 hours per week, starting salary of $12,000, losing $110,000 in my retirement account due to the stock market crash of 2001-2002, losing $380,000 across four rental houses due to the real estate crash of 2008-2012, totally broke