The Non-Crisis Crisis: insane level of attack on public school teachers
If the pension crisis isn’t fixed in the Illinois pension systems via “pension reform” that hurts active and retired teachers, the separate Chicago pension systems will destroy Chicago according to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D). State Senate President John Cullerton (D) says there is no state pension system crisis. Today, the Tribune reported, “The mayor wasn’t talking specifics today, but a plan put forward by his chief Springfield ally, Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, could provide an outline.”
Go ahead, read that over several times.It makes no sense, but that is their story, and they’re all sticking to it. Do you smell a rat? Or, do you smell the stench of politically corrupted cronies?
Emanuel said, “Should Springfield fail to pass pension reform for Chicago soon, we will be right back here in (city) council early next year to start work on the city’s 2015 budget — a budget that will either double city property taxes or eliminate the vital services that people rely on.”
Emanuel, who recently handed over $70 million in education tax money to a private Catholic university, DePaul, to build a second basketball arena, added, “I believe I can