Back when Obama passed the stimulus bill in 2009, I did some slicing and dicing after downloading spreadsheets supplied by a “transparency” website so “taxpayers could see where their money was going to improve infrastructure and ‘shovel-ready’ jobs...”
I will say, they abstracted the data so heavily that it was nearly impossible to figure out what money was going where, but in breaking down the distributions to one of the most wealthy towns in my state, there was something that stuck out, it kept coming up.
This was just two fiscal quarters in Massachusetts (yes, two quarters) of stimulus money going to pay for teacher’s unions healthcare:
FY 2010 Q2
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH Health Insurance premiums for district employees $1,184,601
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH School employees health insurance payments (Apr-Jun) $382,238
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP 4th quarter FY09 health insurance premiums $265,251
FY2010 Q3
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH School employees health insurance payments (Apr-Jun) $382,238
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH Health Insurance premiums for district employees $1,184,601
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP FY10 health insurance premiums $183,765
MINUTEMAN NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP 4th quarter FY09 health insurance premiums $26,5251
MINUTEMAN-NASHOBA HEALTH GROUP Health Insurance Trust $241,820
MINUTEMAN/NASHOBA HEALTH Emp por health insurance premiums for school employees $18,8029
Heck. And that “stimulus” was for only about $900 billion. It was all a scam to get money into the pockets of these kinds of areas. This was one of the wealthiest towns in the state, and they got this much in one or two quarters.
Teacher’s Union Healthcare.
Teacher’s Union Healthcare.
Teacher’s Union Healthcare.
Teacher’s Union Healthcare.
Teacher’s Union Healthcare.
Teacher’s Union Healthcare.
Teacher’s Union Healthcare.
Teacher’s Union Healthcare.
Teacher’s Union Healthcare.
Teacher’s Union Healthcare.
THAT is what the “vital and much needed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” was all about. Citizens like you and me, citizens without healthcare, paying for healthcare for people like the Teacher’s Union Healthcare so they don’t have to pay a cent of their own money, so all their healthcare is paid for.
This $1.9 Trillion dollar “stimulus” is the exact same thing for various unions and mismanaged Leftist locales.
-—”Teacher’s Union Healthcare. Teacher’s Union Healthcare. Teacher’s Union Healthcare...”
Nice work!
Before the 0bama years the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF), was a poster boy for proper pension management.
Those days are long gone.
The system was pushed over the edge with NON PAYMENT by the state of Illinois.
To compensate for this the ahole legislators gave them more benefits; which they have not bothered to pay for.
The city of Chicago teachers is a separate entity.
Always a sinkhole for cash.
AND THEN... Daley II and his finance team tossed the teachers a bone to close the deal.
One minor problem, the bone was a line item that had a build-in escalator; that number is now in low earth orbit and headed to the moon and beyond.
About the multiemployer BS, see #32 and multiply by a very large number of events.
“”they abstracted the data so heavily that it was nearly impossible to figure out what money was going where,””
Wouldn’t we all like to know just WHO puts these things together? As you say, impossible to uncover details.