Retired College Teacher With $152,000 Pension Claims Pension Reform is Theft (Illinois)

Champion News ^ | Apr 27, 2012 | Bill Zettler

[RFEngineer]

“WTF is wrong with you ? They passed the law. They are responsible to back it up. I’m getting tired of dealing with all the pseudo conservatives on this site.Grow up.Quit whining.”

Bankruptcy is law too, my friend, and it was passed too for just this reason.

They (Illinois retirees) won’t get what they expect, not because someone is not conservative enough in your opinion, but because mathematics is an exact science and there is not enough money from taxpayers to provide services for which taxes are paid, and simultaneously pay lucrative pensions.

Illinois hasn’t hit the debt wall yet, but they will be among the first, if not the first (a race with California).

This will be repeated in many, if not most states, and municipalities. It will probably be repeated at the federal level before it’s all over.

You can have services, or you can pay retirees with the tax money. You can’t have both.

Now who’s whining?

[Renegade]

So I guess they should renounce their citizenship, move to Mexico, come back to the US, and get $$ for free like the illegals do?

http://www.wthr.com/video?clipId=7054149&topVideoCatNo=103348&autoStart=true

[RFEngineer]

“So I guess they should renounce their citizenship, move to Mexico, come back to the US, and get $$ for free like the illegals do?”

Different issue (but you knew that), same result.

The financial reality will be stark for anyone who thinks taxpayers are willing and able to finance their chosen way of life in perpetuity - by paying taxes so that welfare recipients and government retirees can retire in the style they have become accustomed.

The founding fathers observed that individuals have the God-given right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This trumps any agreements reached by union members, government employees, or welfare recipients.