Sometimes you have to use plain words to describe a theftin broad daylight.
Read Kentucky teacher Randy Wieck’s description of the broad-daylight theft of teachers’ pension funds and what this means, not only to teachers, but to school districts across the state.
The Kentucky public pension “deform” abomination signed by Governor Bevin July 24, 2019 – opposed by all Senate Democrats and 9 Republicans in the Kentucky Senate, deforms the pensions – it does not reform them.
The essential knife-thrusts to the heart of the government retiree pension are these:
1) It clips future hires from the plan (and future pay-ins).
2) It allows 118 quasi-governmental agencies (rape crisis centers; health departments, regional universities, etc.) to buy out of the retirement plan with only vague plans to pay off their 30-year pension deb.
The amounts owed are so large it is daft to think the agencies could meet their obligations without declaring bankruptcy and then consequently cutting the benefits of retirees…
By pushing the pension obligations on to individual school districts and thereby increasing the percentage of school-district budgets that must be paid into the pension plan they force the districts to seek cover in bankruptcy.
This will result in significant job losses:
To wit, Louisville, Kentucky, where I am a teacher, recently shut all of its outdoor summer pools; cancelled the most recent police recruit class; and shuttered several libraries to cover increased pension costs. School districts will have to follow suit if this fiscal breach of faith, if this crime – goes unchallenged in the courts, our last resort.
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Bevin is a predatory hedge funder who subjected his kids to diseases which could have been prevented by vaccines.
He, like the Koch’s, is absent a soul.
Ultimately, Americans will have to choose the same solution that the French chose for the corrupt aristocracy.
Of course, Bevin and his cronies will blame the selfish, greedy teachers and their socialist labor union for the reduced services to Kentucky’s citizens.
People that would vote for anyone connected with hedge funds are asking for trouble. Hedge funds are vulture capitalists that will manipulate and maneuver financial arrangements to benefit themselves. They only care about lining their own pockets at everyone else’s expense, and they know nothing about public service.
and they are absolutely willing to gamble: should there be a huge “fail” in the market brought on this ever more irresponsible gambling, schools, children, teachers — all expendable, all irrelevant side issues
Why would anybody want to work in Kentucky
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If people ruled out working in all of the red states, there wouldn’t be nearly enough job opportunities.
Why would anyone want to work in Indiana?
Teacher Salaries a Problem in Indiana
Posted: Jul 30, 2019 7:11 PM
VIGO COUNTY, Ind. (WTHI)– With the start of school right around the corner, teacher pay is a hot topic in the state of Indiana. In fact, according to a recent Forbes study, Indiana ranks last in teacher salary raises over the last 15 years. It’s a problem being felt locally as well…
https://www.wthitv.com/content/news/Teacher-Salaries-a-Problem-in-Indiana-513410231.html#.XUTzJEONrVM.gmail
The only listed representative of a religion at the Bevin/Devos “public meeting” where student journalists were evicted was the Catholic church.
Leonard Leo is the central figure in the Federalist Society, an organization that gets conservative lawyers on the bench. He received in one recent year, according to Wikipedia, $120,000 from the Catholic Association.
Paul Weyrich, the founder of ALEC, the Koch’s Heritage Foundation and the religious right, the man who coined the term, Moral Majority, joined a more conservative Catholic denomination after finding his prior one too liberal.
BTW, in 2008, Fordham posted, “Who Will Save Urban Catholic Schools?” and, in 2016,”Resurrecting Catholic Schools”.
Conservative religion is linked to authoritarian patriarchy. After the 2020 elections, based on resignations, the GOP is projected to have zero black representatives and only 11 women. BTW, Fordham recently posted the controversial defense for “No Excuses” discipline.
About 20% of white Americans identify as Catholic (approx. 4 times the number of black Americans who are Catholic). If Leo and Weyrich aren’t representing Catholic political policy, its time for fellow Catholics, those who believe in social justice to make the rift highly visible. If they don’t, Catholic political policy should be the same target as evangelical policy.
Readily, media report on and expose evangelicals like Jerry Falwell Jr., Franklin Graham, etc. and, elites readily mock them. But, there’s blackout on equal treatment for the right wing extremism of other religious sects who sit at the seat of power.