Bloomberg Takes on Pension Reform in State of the City Address

[defendandprotect]

http://www.dnainfo.com/20110119/manhattan/bloomberg-takes-on-pension-reform-state-of-city-address

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Boy, he's a real go-getter, Mayor Snow-plow.

He's gonna "take-on" pension reform.

I have a "sinkin' fillin'' ( thank you, Ricky Ricardo) that working class people are going to get LESS as a consequence of said "reform"... and that the NYC moneyed elite are going to get *more*. I don't know *why* I feel that way...call me crazy.... I just *do*.



>>>Bloomberg also pushed his plan to reform teacher hiring practices so that layoffs can be based on performance, not just how long a teacher has taught.>>>

Groan. Not this again. Now children... listen carefully, one more time: in NYC, longevity is scaled to *salary*. When the city fires senior teachers and replaces them with newbie teachers it SAVES MONEY. Dinero. Greenbacks. You know, the thing that Mayor Snowplow has 30 billion of?

This is a "reform"? On what planet?



>>>>>But Bloomberg drew glares from United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew when he suggested that the city could save money by firing higher paid, longer-serving teachers and keeping on lower paid, newer teachers.
"They didn't discuss any of this with us," an angry Mulgrew said following the speech.>>>>

And... ahem....the effect on the school system? Who cares. It won't effect Bloomberg. It won't effect Klein. It won't effect Black, Obama, Gates, Caroline Kennedy or Davis Guggenheim ... or virtually any other prominent school "reformer". Why? Their kids were, or are tucked away in fancy private schools. You know 10 kids to one teacher? 35K plus per year?

And they say this is not a class issue.

Riiiiggghhhht.


>>>Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110119/manhattan/bloomberg-takes-on-pension-reform-state-of-city-address#ixzz1BXAtyBbt<<<<


No thanks. I read enough.

[defendandprotect]

3. Ah, some honesty about the issue and you're absolutely right -- !!

>>>>>But Bloomberg drew glares from United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew when he suggested that the city could save money by firing higher paid, longer-serving teachers and keeping on lower paid, newer teachers.
"They didn't discuss any of this with us," an angry Mulgrew said following the speech.>>>>]


And -- from what I recall, pensions all over the country have been underfunded -- and that

happened via various scams which the guardians of the trust funds allowed to happen.


How anyone can doubt that what we're dealing with is organized crime having taken over our

government, I don't know!

:eyes:



PS: Could Mulgrew be so naive as to have NOT expected betrayal?

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. I haven't decided about Mulgrew.

No... whatever else... he's NOT naive.

I spent an hour + listening to him today ( it's my union) and I'm more inclined to trust his honesty and veracity than not. (But forget "naive"; he's quite bright, and he's been around the block... and then some.)

His predecessor, OTOH, seemed influenced., and thus neutered, if you will. It's hard not to be influenced when your dealing with someone with as much economic power as Bloomberg has. He can make good things happen for someone. Or he can choose not to.

He Freudian-slippped a few years back that fire-breathing Greenwich Village radical Council President Christine Quinn faced a "great future" in private industry someday... and she's been quite cooperative ever since.

We live in a beautiful world.

[defendandprotect]

5. Well, I can see

how it isn't easy to tell --

but then look at Obama -- !! :eyes:

[Hannah Bell]

2. bloombucks needs to pay for his own snowplows.

instead of using public ones to plow his driveway first.