tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607144762948150931.post6323103558781203389..comments2023-06-27T08:39:54.324-07:00Comments on Pension Vocabulary : Rep. Ives - Tweacher PhobiaJohn Dillonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10516552420300264491noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607144762948150931.post-78975911839105900402017-07-10T11:11:07.456-07:002017-07-10T11:11:07.456-07:00I often wonder whether making Illinois debt junk b...I often wonder whether making Illinois debt junk bond status was somehow the aim of some investors Governor Rauner happens to know, with potential for a kickback? For instance, 12% was being paid on the debt. If the state had their own bank they could have had a loan from the FED at 0% during the recent economic downturn. I also wonder why money hasn't properly been invested for the teacher pensions during the dot-com. boom? Has the person with fiduciary responsibility been friends of Bernie Madoff? Lastly, having two sets of books for Illinois education is wasting tax payer money; one set of books for privatization with incentives to cut salaries and services to make a big bottom line profits for corporation stockholders, while depriving the traditional old public school style education where waste is limited by civil service-limited salaries in a non-profit setting and where profit is not in seeing a monetary return on investment but instead, educated childrenMark L. Madsenhttp://pension-vocabulary.blogspot.com/2017/07/rep-ives-tweacher-phobia.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607144762948150931.post-39215084219524353132017-07-04T13:34:10.449-07:002017-07-04T13:34:10.449-07:00Those who will say or do anything for money are pr...Those who will say or do anything for money are prostitutes They develop a political/religious belief, a self righteous belief, in the invincibility of their own prostitution. They are spouting the Word. The Word according to Ayn Rand, the Cato Institute, the KKK, the American Enterprise Institute, the Koch Brothers, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Libertarian Party, The Republican House of Representatives and Senate, Mark Cuban, Steven Bannon, Alan Greenspan, Henry Kissinger, the Tea Party Patriots, Ron and Rand Paul, Gene Roddenberry, John Stossel, Peter Thiel, Clarence Thomas,Jimmy Wales, Kellyanne Conway, and many more extremist believers of the One True Faith of Power and Wealth. Prostitutes all - and righteous believers all.Ken Previtihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10513924091013990654noreply@blogger.com