[ditchdigger]

I like this one: "It definitely makes me wonder where the public gets the notion this is a windfall (for teachers)," said Kimberly Claytor, president of the Newport-Mesa Federation of Teachers. "Every educator I've known who is getting a STRS pension has spent decades – decades – providing services to children."

Wow Kimberly...decades working in their chosen career?

[MSF BU]

Decades, Decades, except most of June, all of July and August and several other weeks during the ‘school year’. Otherwise, Decades. Here in Massachusetts, we are not hurting for people who are looking to teach (aside from the math & sciences).

[Chickensoup]

The word is TEACHERS!

[The Comedian]

There is something exceptionally delicious about The Envy Ray being turned on teachers' union members.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[rawhide]

How can someone work 27 years in Florida and retire with a pension from there, then go to work in California and work enough years to to build up an even bigger retirement from that state? It does not seem possible?

[rawhide]

Any word from obamma on these guys making too much in pensions? Has the pay czar started an investigation?

[HiTech RedNeck]

So this "decades" chap must be at least a 20 year veteran of California.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Wow Kimberly...decades working in their chosen career?

Looking at in a realistic light, they spent decades because they couldn't be fired!

[kittykat77]

The size of the pensions aside, I think the point here is whether pensions should be forfeited if a worker is convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony, even if the crime is unrelated to the job for which the person is receiving the pension.

Hate teachers, if you want to. Hate unions, if you want to. To me, this is a very creepy idea. Don't forget how greedy the government got once so-called drug-related property confiscations became "legal," allowing such confiscations without due process!

[budwiesest]

Defund ACORN, next, defund public education (socialized indoctrination).

[narses]

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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

[sten]

the concept of a pension doesn’t even exist in my field (software). yet, i am supposed to continue paying these clowns even if they aren’t working??

sounds a lot like congress

[Melian]

Well, there should at least be a clause in there that if you commit a serious crime you forfeit the pension! That one clause alone would probably save the taxpayers of CA a pretty penny.

[Let's Roll]

And they’ve done such a bang-up job too, haven’t they? They should be paying the American public back.

[dragnet2]

Government at all levels, federal, state, county and city, is government has become massive, bloated, and all controlling, while those in government now collect opulent salaries, benefits and lottery style retirement pensions, while the entire private sector loses it's homes, investments, retirements, jobs etc...

Americans can no longer afford these government tax paid life styles and wages of fire fighters, teachers, city councilmen, mayors, governors, congress members, cops, and all the other millions of government employees. It's crushing America as government clings to the backs of tax payers.

To compound this subversion of our system, the things government is supposed to do, like secure our borders and protect our sovereignty, it refuses to do, while at the same time forcing the people to pay for this epic lawless violence and chaos.