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Once again, TRS Executive Director Richard Ingram says we need sacrifice. What he doesn’t say? Teachers already have. « Fred Klonsky

Once again, TRS Executive Director Richard Ingram says we need sacrifice. What he doesn’t say? Teachers already have. « Fred Klonsky:


Once again, TRS Executive Director Richard Ingram says we need sacrifice. What he doesn’t say? Teachers already have.

Teacher Retirement System’s Richard Ingram pens a commentary in the Trib calling on sacrifice to make TRS solvent.
Sacrifice by whom?
He only hints at what he thinks is the answer.
But by refusing to say, one must assume he is doing what all politicians do when they call for sacrifice.
Sometimes they say “shared sacrifice.”
But what they mostly mean is we should sacrifice. Even though we already have. The money that the state owes