SB-12404 & 3/4
The passage of Illinois SB-2404 seems somewhat doubtful. The appeasing union chorus is too loud, the fears of future teacher maiming too small, and the public posturing too meek.In Florida public pensions have been whacked by the Tea Party Sociopath Gov. Rick Scott with the full blessing of the uber-corrupt Republican legislature. Present pensions are crippled and awaiting atrophy, and any possibility of a future pension for active teachers is dead.
Present teachers have no tenure laws to protect them from being fired at a moment’s notice for anything – even a photograph of posing in a bathing suit. Active teachers have no intentions of risking so much as an hour’s salary in defense of the corporate media described golf-course living retirees who eat fresh salmon and arugula at the health-club. What do those ancient relics know about the problems teachers face daily?
What does this have to do with Illinois?
Any form of discussion toward actually solving the state’s revenue problem is not to be considered or even uttered aloud in public – or uttered by the media – unless it is on AM radio after midnight or on Sunday morning.
Since the nasty, greedy and powerful unified public employee unions have approved and are pushing their membership to publicly bless SB-2404, how will this appear to those who have been fed Illinois Is Broke, Reboot