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Friday, January 31, 2014

Cut my throat and ask me to donate my blood to the throat cutter. Today! Now! Or… the bad guys win. | Reclaim Reform

Cut my throat and ask me to donate my blood to the throat cutter. Today! Now! Or… the bad guys win. | Reclaim Reform:



Cut my throat and ask me to donate my blood to the throat cutter. Today! Now! Or… the bad guys win.

Teachers and most other people receive emails such as this daily – or even more often. It seems that the majority of the financial crises (most are related to austerity and sequestration in the wealthiest nation in the world) are created for profit, including profit for politicos.
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There is a bitter irony in having a branch of the same political party who is stealing the earned delayed benefits (pensions) of teachers by telling them to share-the-sacrifice to then ask them to donate to the political party’s “cause of the day.” That is hard illogic to follow, isn’t it?
OUR PARTY WILL SAVE YOU FROM THE OTHER PARTY – if you give us even more money than the other party is gouging from the other guys. But, we are still going to hurt you.
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Cut my throat and ask me to donate my blood to the throat cutter. Today! Now! Or… the bad guys win.
Active and retired teachers across the nation are flooded with this insane email. Our pensions are cut because there is no money. The revenue is not there. Legislators have misappropriated the money for years – underfunding the contracted teacher to pay the political crony. At the same time, corporations have their taxes cut. Corporate tax incentives and grants are awarded to them by the hundreds of millions of dollars per state per month,