[skeeter]

It's not her fault that politicians can't be trusted to manage a pension.

Its not my fault my wife & I are doing reasonably well in our business, either, but the president says we must do 'our fair share' and put some 'skin in the game'. Up our taxes go.

So I don't see why Linda's 'lavish' retirement salary should be off the table.

[cripplecreek]

Their day is coming and it ain't gonna be pretty.

If anyone wants to be added to the Michigan Cap Con ping list, let me know.

[driftdiver]

Seems to me she’s been fleecing the taxpayer for long enough.

Those poor poor teachers, only making $175,000 a year.

[Michael.SF.]

After 36 years she is retiring at 53% of her average base pay for the past three years? On the surface this sounds like a bad example to illustrate the problem of runaway pension funding.

[MondoQueen]

The fact that the teacher gets a big pension is not due to her “boss” thinking she was worth it. Her pension is due to the union bosses who stacked the school board with their own people. These are not people who own a business and have to look at the bottom line. This (the school boards) is how we got into this mess. We, the taxpayers, have no say.

[Buckeye McFrog]

(yawn)....your average bus driver in Pittsburgh gets a sweeter deal than that.

[dangerdoc]

Nice work if you can get it.

[hal ogen]

Parasite.

[napscoordinator]

“They are getting lavish benefits from an underfunded pension system,” said James Hohman, a fiscal policy analyst with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

Wow! Thanks for recognizing that now. Where were you 36 years ago. It is NOT the woman’s problem that she worked 36 years and this is what she is getting in retirement. Most people today working for government are not going to get these type of retirments....had she started after 1981, she would be getting 36 percent of her final 3....much lower.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Lost in all of this sturm undt drang over public education in this country, perhaps, seems to be the salary difference between the teachers in the trenches and the administrators who serve the system. And I'm speaking in pure anecdotal evidence, here, as my wife's family has a ton of teachers in it, especially special ed teachers. It seems that a standard "line" teacher gets about, oh, I don't know, anywhere from 40% to 75% of the salary as a standard administrator, especially a high level administrator.

Is that the case throughout the nation? Are the budget busters here, really, the pensions owed to administrators - who top out (best three years) at $100K+? Or do line teachers eventually climb the ladder to become administrators themselves?

[dragnet2]

57 when she retires. A government school employee, Thompson's average salary of $175,649 the past three years would earn a pension of $94,850 a year.

Bewahahaha....The joke is on the private sector...They're 100 percent screwed by government at all levels.

[Fledermaus]

Just don’t pay her. Let her sue. To hell with the “contract”...libs don’t believe in laws anyway.