Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. “F— pensions.” « Fred Klonsky

Life in Rahm’s Chicago. “F— pensions.” « Fred Klonsky:


Life in Rahm’s Chicago. “F— pensions.”



Rahm went to Springfield and jumped to the head of the lynch mob.
“F— the UAW,” he was once famously quoted.
“F— you,” he once said to the President of the Chicago teachers union.
“F— pensions,” he told Springfield lawmakers today.

Testifying before a House committee, Mr. Emanuel called for a 10-year holiday on paying cost-of-living increases in Chicago’s four pension funds and other government retirement systems around the state. That freeze would apply to both current workers and those who already have retired.

Workers also ought to contribute an additional 5 percent of salary to keep their