WHY are your commissioners paid so much??? That’s absolutely mental. Ingham County seats net a max of $16,832/annum plus a whopping per diem of $60. And this county is pretty blue, home to Lansing/East Lansing.
Despicable union thug crooks/Chicago Way .. Ping!
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Report: Ex-labor chief works 1 day, nets $158,000 city pension
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A retired Chicago labor leader has secured a $158,000 public pension roughly five times greater than what a typical retired public-service worker in the Windy City receives after spending just one day on the city payroll ...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44626194/ns/us_news-life/#.TntuaOz-Uk8
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Chicago union bosses raking in millions from city pension fund
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All it took to give nearly two dozen labor leaders from Chicago a windfall worth millions was a few tweaks to a handful of sentences in the states lengthy pension code.
The changes became law with no public debate among state legislators and, more importantly, no cost analysis.
Twenty years later, 23 retired union officials from Chicago stand to collect about $56 million from two ailing city pension funds thanks to the changes, a Tribune/WGN-TV investigation found.
The short version of the story is that a couple of decades ago, somebody (amazingly they cant seem to find anyone willing to admit they did it) inserted a change into the pension laws which essentially says that the pension city workers receive can be based on the last salary they drew from the union instead of the actual salary they earned working on the public payroll. Heres a couple of the notable results:
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The whole article above is a MUST read. The thug Dem community are raping and robbing us at every level of every state and local govt. and the entire federal govt. apparatus. REMOVING THEM ALL MUST BE OUR CLARION CALL!!
That was my mistake, he's our new "Macomb County Executive".....