400 attend Schaumburg meeting on teacher pensions

A classic case of "don't look behind the curtain." State legislators 'earn' pension benefits after a few yrs.in office. Rahm cuts everything in sight-but won't advocate reducing the number of human stumps on the City Council. Connected dept.heads retire from city jobs on Friday, and jump on the county and/or state payroll on Monday - double or triple dipping on benefits. Daley & God knows who else magically benefit from fine print buried in obscure laws.
But by all means, keep telling yourself teachers, first responders and building engineers are the problem...

We in the private sector are often told that we are just jealous to begrudge our pampered counterparts in the public sector their early retirements and bountiful pensions. It turns out some public sector "cocoon dwellers" are not above these petty jealousies themselves. The mentality seems to be "I deserve to retire at 55 and let those peasents work to 67 to support me". It's funny but not surprising to see they will turn on each other when the money fairly dies of exhaustion.

i hope these lousy lazy do nothing only work 9 months a year teachers lose it all. statistics prove you are horrible at your jobs.

@cops are not heroes
Cant agree with you more

sws wrote:

@cops are not heroes
Cant agree with you more

Possibly not but they pay almost 10% of their wages into the pension fund. More than you do for social security. Besides who wants a 67 year old cop for protection?