“At first blush, a pension bill adopted by the General Assembly in 2007 seemed to have a laudable goal: extending retirement benefits to local police force employees’ widows after they remarried.
But buried within the legislation was something considerably less altruistic: a provision that enabled a member of one of Chicago’s better-known political families to boost his pension by more than $30,000 a year — while saddling unsuspecting taxpayers in Oak Brook with nearly $750,000 in funding liabilities, the Chicago Sun-Times and Better Government Association have learned.”Please go to: http://www.suntimes.com/11623506-417/clout-heavy-ex-police-chief-on-30k-pension-sweetener-i-deserve-every-penny.html to read the entire article.
So, why does TheFundamentals share this local piece of insight into the Chicago Way you might ask? Well the answer is surprisingly simple. There is no form of employment, anywhere – where the opportunity for mischief and downright abuse is greater than local, state and federal government employees gaming the system and relying on their connections and “you scratch my back and I will scratch yours” mentality to self enrich. No where. And in that universe of personal self dealing and very costly paychecks and benefits and, more than anything, unearned, undeserved but very rich pension programs; there is no place on the face of the earth to better get yours than in the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois.
Nowhere.
This essay is not an April fools day joke, folks. The Sun Times and the Chicago Tribune have done a good job of trying to let you know just how bad the corruption is in their home town and their home state. It is the Chicago way and you have given the pure corruption and the unshameful behavior of Chicago politicians an opportunity to now overwhelm the entire country by electing one of their neophyte hack politicians president and turning the US treasury and the federal reserve system over to his Chicago way of thinking and to let his cronies run free in the halls of congress and, in record numbers, in the many growing bureaucracies around the land. The United States of America is now printing money to finance the nonsense of the self dealing, “where’s mine” mentality of Chicago trained thugs we now call public officials.
Now some of you will not agree with the wisdom of our words. Some of you will choose to not read the article. So you may miss these gentle words coming out of the mouth of the thug who is the sole beneficiary of the Chicago way deal that is the focus of this Sun Times article. For those who can’t handle the truth, let’s let the thugs own words display his appreciation for this self serving act on the part of his Chicago way buddies -- “Sharp-tongued and unapologetic about benefiting from the provision that no one else has used, the 59-year-old Sheahan said of his pension: “I worked for 24 f------ years [in the public sector], I deserve every penny of it and I deserve “a lot f------ more.”
24 YEARS OF WORK IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND HE DESERVES....".A LOT F______ MORE."Obama voters, keep this thought in your mind. This is an April fool’s day joke you brought on yourselves. You choose it; you actually gave the keys of the US treasury to a bunch of self important, self dealing thugs. It is a sad but amazingly accurate fact of life that most humans, even us wise and brilliant Americans, will so gladly turn power over to the most abusive people we can find and then sycophantically stay the course we have chosen.
The jokes on you who voted them in. And the due bill gets spread around. The thugs get the money and we all get the bill. That is the Chicago way. Enjoy it.
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