Sunday, September 2, 2012

Guest blogger: “Do they think WE’RE idiots.” « Fred Klonsky

Guest blogger: “Do they think WE’RE idiots.” « Fred Klonsky:


Guest blogger: “Do they think WE’RE idiots.”


By guest blogger: MiC
Shortly after a special session of the Illinois General Assembly ended a couple weeks ago, Representative Daniel Biss described the failure to enact pension “reform” by the politicians assembled in Springfield this way:
“We all look like idiots.”
This line, widely reported, pretty much summed up the view held prior to the special session of roughly 800,000 working and middle class Illinois public employees who keep us safe, care for our sick and elderly, inspire our