Gov. Craven Heartless Worm Throws Trumpie Trantrum Over Pension Truths
Just like his Dear Leader the Orange Loser, Bevin can't deal with anyone criticizing him, especially when the critics are right
in pointing out the lies and corruption.
Bruce Schreiner at the AP:
Gov. Matt Bevin fired back Tuesday at critics of a GOP plan to revamp Kentucky’s chronically underfunded public pension systems, saying they have no alternatives and warning that doing nothing is a “path to insolvency.”
Speaking to a business group, Bevin said structural changes are needed to sustain the pension systems.“Everybody would love to ignore it - all the fear mongers and the ‘chicken littles’ - the ‘sky-is-falling’ crowd that are just so upset about the fact that anything is changing,” the Republican governor said. “And yet the path we’re on is literally a direct path to insolvency financially.”His comments came a day after Kentucky Education Association President Stephanie Winkler warned the pension plan would “devastate” public education.
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"Education" is mainly about teachers' salaries and benefits. If the teachers are unionized, then it's about the excessive salaries and sinecures of older teachers, many of whom are burnouts. To them, dedication means staying vertical for as long as they have to in order to get the best possible pension, with COLA and (better still) double dipping. I add to the teachers their fellow travelers, the administrators who push paper and make rules about bathrooms and equity for dumb kids. If this education system fails, the kids will be short-term losers but the taxpayers, parents and kids will be long-term winners. I doubt the moderator will publish this because such truth warrants suppression. But perhaps, if he does, he can gain readership and promote some useful discussions.
Your analysis is about 20 years out of date. Since 1980, state employment has fallen from 65,000 people to fewer than 34,000. The early retirement deal of 2008 swept the last of the "burnouts" and "paper pushers" out the door. Today, teachers and state employees are doing the work that 2 or even 3 people did 20 years ago. They are the last of the people who started working for peanuts in exchange for the promise of a pension that would support them through old age. The employees who are hired now get will nothing, and the state will be getting what it pays for.
No "truth" warrants suppression, but lies scream out for correction.
And next time, leave a name.
Anonymous: Yellow Dog is a name. Anonymous is a cover for a coward. Try again.
"If the teachers are unionized, then it's about the excessive salaries and sinecures of older teachers" Since other than Louisville and a few precincts in Covington, there are no unionized teachers in Kentucky, Anonymous is complaining about a tiny sliver of pensioners in the commonwealth.
Hearing Kentuckians gripe about teachers' unions is idiocy to my ears.
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