The in box. When did it become acceptable to take money from old people?
When did it become acceptable to take money from old people? That’s the question I have been asking. Because the truth is, it is not. And never has been. It is evil to hurt pensioners. It is evil to take money from people who have earned it. The pension is a life savings for years of hard work and study. It is earned, a kind of delayed wages.
So how is this happening? And maybe there is a glimpse of hope in the fact that there has been a delay in enacting the most hurtful legislation. We need to tap into that and celebrate that. We need to call out the leaders who advocate stealing from us. And we need to celebrate as heroes those who fight against a well-organized effort to officially steal from us, as the stealing is social and political in nature.
Go back to the first question. When did it become acceptable to take money from old people? And why is the step the legislature took this past week to limit the pensions of those making over
Senate Bill 7 two years later. The legacy of Jonah Edelman.
Jonah Edelman’s Aspen tape. Note reference to Bruce Rauner in the opening.
Long-time readers of this blog know the story of Senate Bill 7.
Two years ago a corporate school reformer with deep pockets came into the state. To show he was serious, he dropped a couple hundred thousand dollars on some state legislative races.
That got him some attention.
From Michael Madigan. And from the state’s teacher unions.
That was Jonah Edelman of Stand for Children.
The candidates he backed won their races. And Madigan responded by establishing a