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Throwing more dirt into an open grave will not resurrect the dead. Neither will asking retirees to pay more and get less resolve the massive debt that your negligence has created.
As a retired educator who worked as a public employee and paid my share into the public pension system for 34 years, I demand that you not reduce my retirement benefits that were promised to me in any way, shape, or form! Please VOTE NO on Amendment 15 to SB1673. Failure to do so will not only throw more dirt on the reputation of the government of this state and its legislators, but it will also represent the end all hope of young people entrusting themselves and their talents to the future of education, law and fire enforcement and any form of public service in Illinois where pension payments are deducted from their paychecks for future compensation.
Why should our retirees and the future benefactors of education and union pensions be denied their Constitutional right to a safe and secure retirement due to the shortsighted greed of those in whom we entrusted our future?
Lena Condic
8:21 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Perhaps if teacher salaries weren't doubled for the 2 yrs before they retire, so as to obtain larger pensions, there wouldn't be this problem now.
Mike F.
11:48 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
So do you think a teacher with a graduate degree and 20+ years of experience should be making the same salary as one who is fresh out of college with a bachelor's degree?
Will County Resident
1:00 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
There is no reason to pay a teacher a pension at a higher rate than what they normally earned during the majority of their working time.
1:35 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Will County Resident....I do not know of any teacher being paid a higher rate than what they normally earned during the majority of their working time. Also, remember starting salaries tend to be very low compared to many high-school grad's and most college grad's... and it takes 25-35 years of dedicated service and continuing education for their salaries to increase slowly over time.
6:22 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Teacher salaries are not "doubled" for the 2 years before they retire. Check your "facts". Teachers pay into their pensions. If the state hadn't started borrowing from TRS to make their bills when Jim Thompson was governor, this wouldn't have happened. Every other governor after that has continued to use the pension system as their personal bank. Is the General Assembly cutting their pensions that the taxpayers of Illinois pay? I doubt it.
Mary Van
7:12 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
@sells....where in the world do you get your information from. Teachers DO NOT have their salaries doubled the last 2 years of their careers. I am a retired teacher, and can safely say that that is not the case....just ask any teacher.
Just another fine example of an ignorant public.
Tired of the B.S.
11:30 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Mary Van,
You speak of an ignorant public and I have to laugh. If the teachers are doing such a great job, how can there be an ignorant public? Didn't you teach the public? So, what you are really saying is that there is an ignorant public because the teachers have not done their jobs, right?
Will County Resident
3:02 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Really? You guys don't know of ANY pension spikers that are teachers? Amazing! Here's my chance to teach you.
"Teacher Pensions Put Strain On State: End-of-career salary spikes inflate costs for Illinois retirement fund by Diane Rado and Darnell Little, Chicago Tribune, Sunday, June 29, 2003, page 1. "More than 70 percent of full-time teachers and school staff who retired in the suburbs and Downstate Illinois in the last decade pocketed double-digit pay increases and other perks shortly before leaving--costing state taxpayers millions in higher pension payments, a Tribune investigation has found. Using such salary spikes to boost pensions is legal in Illinois but highly unusual and sometimes outlawed elsewhere ... The perks have been doled out even as the economy soured, local districts battled deficits, and the Teachers' Retirement System ... struggled with shortfalls."
"More than 70 percent of full-time teachers and school staff who retired in the suburbs and Downstate Illinois in the last decade pocketed double-digit pay increases and other perks shortly before leaving--costing state taxpayers millions in higher pension payments, a Tribune investigation has found."
3:35 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Up until about 4-5 years ago, when a teacher or administrator retired, they would get a 20% bump in pay EACH of the last two years working. Now it seems as though they must give a 5-6 year notice and get a 6% increase every year. If a teacher was making $100K they would get $120K the first year and then a 20% bump on that which would make them earn $144K the year before retirement. Finally the taxpayers put a stop to that and rallied their representative and senators.
8:40 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Please vote YES on Amendment 15 to SB1673, we can't afford it or perhaps the state should just go bankrupt and you get nothing. Time to suck it up, you are going to have to pay more just like the rest of us.
1:21 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
If you paid 9.4% of your earnings each year for the past 30 years into A "Mandatory" System expecting to retire with benefits based on your investment, wouldn't you expect to receive it when you retired? Remember, this is money you provided, NOT the taxpayers & NOT the school district's board. Also, after taking 9.4% off the top of each paycheck, minus fed/st taxes, etc....there is very little left to privately invest. AND... I bet if they took your company pension, or private 401K, medicare, and social security away when you retire, that you would be whistling another tune. Oh,did I mention that a teacher counts on their pension even more so, in that they are not eligible for Social Security,even if they paid into it? Again, their pension was not a governmental "safety-net". Let's get real and stop comparing apples to oranges! Be fair and give the retired teachers what they deserve!!! Note: If a teacher taught in a district that paid a % of their pension, then fairly adjust it, but even so, they deserve something for their service and financial investment.
8:57 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
The point is that public sector pensions are UNBELIEVABLY more generous than what the rest of us get. Our "pension" is Social Security. The average SS benefit now is about $14k/yr; the average teacher pension in IL is abour $43k -- three times as much. The SS benefit maxes at about $26k year, and you have to wait to 67 to vest in full benefits , which is usually after 40 or 50 years in the labor force. Average benefit for teachers currenty retiring is about $70k. And the total private employee contribution is 12.4%, whereas the total contribution of a teacher and employer is about 10%. The failure of the state to contribute in some years contributed to the problem but the problem would exist no matter what. Even if the contributions had been made al these pensions would be severely underfunded -- unless you make unrealistic assumptions that very safely invested funds will always earn 8-10% a year. The "we paid for it" line is a crock of $h!t. You paid for at most a quarter or a third of your pension check, and are looking to the rest of us (and our children) to make up the difference, financial consequences be damned.....
8:55 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Juvenal where did you get your info from? The teachers pay 9.4% of their PAY into the pension and then the employer pays their share. Those in the private sector only paid 4.2% of their pay into SS and the employer matched it.... YOU NEVER PAID 12.4%
Tim F
9:08 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
If this amendment is so important, why don't legislators take the lead by reducing their salaries, perks, and pension benefits first. I forgot, in Springfield it's "do as I say, not as I do."
Ann Paul
9:09 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
People need to check with their school district teachers contracts. Many, many school districts (aka the taxpayer) pay the required 9.4% TRS contribution on the teachers' behalf. So in essence, you may be surprised to see how many school district taxpayers are also footing the bill for that. It is all public record and easy to find. If a teacher did pay their own required TRS contributions, then I think retirees are entitled to what they were promised. But when the taxpayer is paying their required 9.4% TRS contribution for them, well, different story. Just sayin . . .
Steve T.
10:26 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Vote NO ! on amendment 15. Its the right thing to do!
11:10 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Sells, where did you get this information? Is your comment based on facts or opinions?
11:47 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Ann Paul is correct, SOME school district boards do pay all or a portion of their teachers 9.4% TRS contribution... but Mokena, Manhattan, Frankfort, and Lincoln-Way 122 teachers, ALL, PAY 100% of the 9.4% required into TRS. Their respective school boards contribute 0%/zero dollars...and the districts that do pay on behalf of their staff, those teachers usually pay for it in reduced salary or in benefits.
9:00 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
School districts are required to pay 0.58% into pensions. This is why salaries for senior teachers get so high, the school boards don't have to pay the pension costs their overly high late career salaries require. State government is the Bizarro world....
Edward Andrysiak
2:27 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
The article writer...from Move On and Soro's group of libs says, in part, "in whom we entrusted our future." Now, teachers are highly educated folks. I'm sure one of the character building things they teach the kids is personal responsibility. This in many ways. If for years they entrusted someone else to look out for their deposits and future retirement money WITHOUT catching the fact that the money is going elsewhere why is it now, once again, someone elses responsibility to see they get paid. They should have been on top of their retirement accounts years ago and bitched then. But no, they had too sweet a deal to raise a stink and bring attention to their gravy train. I say, adjusted the pensions down to the norm of others in retirement. A bankrupt State can and should meet it's obligations but in a reduced form.
Mike F.
2:44 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
They did bitch, but the state pension boards are controlled by appointments, not by elections by the unions. The lawmakers on both sides of the aisle used the the pension boards as their own private credit cards. Now the bill is past due and they don't want to pay.
7:13 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Excuse me, but it is my understanding that teachers had NO choice in the matter. They have (had) to pay into TRS, and could not have control over their retirement "accounts"....As far as a gravy train, I too think you are getting your information based on opinions rather than facts. There wasn't a problem with the teachers' pension plan until the state started to borrow from it when Thompson was governor, to pay their bills. Again adjust teacher pensions down to others in retirement. Others receive Social Security and private company or investment pensions. So, please enlighten me, and tell me what the norm of others in retirement actually is and what did they do, prior to retirement. Oh, and while you are at it, what is this "gravy train" that you are referring to? As for entrusting our future.....the future most teachers are concerned about while they are employed is "the future of our children"!
Edward Andrysiak
2:52 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
Look, I'm for paying a *fair* amount by what ever means we can and that will mean higher taxes. What I have to consider though is all our senior citizens who, like the teachers, planned on something foundational as they go into and stay in retirement on fixed incomes. A senior shouldn't have to move out of their hometown because they can't afford the taxes...WHICH WENT UP IN AN INORDINATE AMOUNT DUE TO THE TEACHERS NOT PAYING ATTENTION AND DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Let's be fair to all here!
New Lenox teacher
1:31 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I am a teacher so please tell me what I did not pay attention to? I started teaching and was told that it is mandatory to be part of TRS and that I had to have 9.5% of my check deducted every pay period. When I asked if I had a choice of where my money was invested and how - I was told that it is up to the TRS board. The State could not pay their bills and they looked to who was making the best investments and making money and decided to change the rules to be able to help themselves to our pension funds with the promise that they would replace the money. I had no vote or say in this and trust me - I walked in Springfield to try to get this not to happen along with a few thousand of my fellow teachers. The unions fought against it too knowing that the money would never be repaid. Surprise!!! The money has never been repaid and now it is our fault. How about dipping into ALL public employees pension funds - police, firefighters, politicians, government workers and teachers. Why just us??? We were not the ones that got us into this mess but like usual, we are the ones that have to dig everyone out. Also, you did not have to move due to school taxes. All taxes went up in town across the board - and I guess you didn't have a problem with the higher value that your home had also due to those schools and other services that are in our town. You can't have it both ways and let's be fair to all here!
Will County Resident
3:05 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
New Lenox teacher, I am all for dipping into the police, fire, and politician pensions. Hell, I would do the first. But your point about taxes for the school not being the reason for someone to move? Be real. The New Lenox schools are 60% of the tax bill, and the money is being used to pad pensions and build empty high schools. It is the reason people are leaving.
Mrs. GoodFella
3:15 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
I vote NO and here is why:
An analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute of data from the Teachers' Retirement System, the Illinois State Board of Education and hundreds of teacher contracts found that in nearly two-thirds of districts across the state, teachers don't contribute the full "employee share" toward their pensions. In fact, most of these districts don't require their teachers to contribute anything toward their own retirement. Instead, the contributions are paid for or "picked up" by school districts – and by extension, local taxpayers. During the 2009-10 school year alone, this little-known perk cost taxpayers more than $430 million. This subsidy is on top of what the state – and by extension, state taxpayers – pay into the teachers' retirement funds through district-paid employer contributions and state funding. To give a recent example, in 2010, the state paid more than $2.2 billion toward TRS to cover the "employer share" of the benefits.
7:21 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
If you are going to only include bits and pieces of an outdated report, you need to include facts that relate to this area....The teachers in all of the public schools in Frankfort, Mokena, Manhattan, and Lincoln Way Dist 210 High School, pay 100% of their 9.4% yearly salary contribution to TRS, the school district pays 0. I believe you will find this data in that same report.
Mrs. GoodFella
3:24 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
In Chicago, city property tax payers pay the pension costs for teachers in the Chicago public school district. Those same taxpayers, through their state income tax, also help pay the pension system contributions for school districts outside Chicago.
Jim Dydo
7:43 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
As a union member I believe that all retiree's deserve the pension they have earned. That is what we all strive for, retirement enjoying life and our grandkids. Why do people think its ok for CEO's to make millions of dollars but want our teachers to get paid rock bottom, sorry that makes no sense. The kids of this community deserve the best we as parents can provide.
4:37 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Dont compare teachers to ceo s. That makes no sense at all.
9:01 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
The point is that public sector pensions are UNBELIEVABLY more generous than what the rest of us get. Our "pension" is Social Security. The average SS benefit now is about $14k/yr; the average teacher pension in IL is abour $43k -- three times as much. The SS benefit maxes at about $26k year, and you have to wait to 67 to vest in full benefits , which is usually after 40 or 50 years in the labor force. Average benefit for teachers currenty retiring is about $70k. And the total private employee contribution is 12.4%, whereas the total contribution of a teacher and employer is about 10%. The failure of the state to contribute in some years contributed to the problem but the problem would exist no matter what. Even if the contributions had been made al these pensions would be severely underfunded -- unless you make unrealistic assumptions that very safely invested funds will always earn 8-10% a year. The "we paid for it" line is a crock of $h!t. You paid for at most a quarter or a third of your pension check, and are looking to the rest of us (and our children) to make up the difference, financial consequences be damned.....
New Lenox teacher
1:40 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I also paid in to Social security and due to being a teacher, I don't get it. I also am denied MY HUSBANDS SOCIAL SECURITY AND ALL OF THE DEATH BENEFITS FROM HIM TOO! The only thing that we have is our TRS pension. We also start at a much lower pay rate than the private sector. I started teaching over 20 years ago at a starting salary of $24,000. I had jobs offered to me down state that offered me between $11,000 - $17,000 starting salary (and this was the early 90's!). I have also invested in myself continuing education at over $60,000 so that I can make a decent salary. How much do you pay to do your job???
Think about this.....
I basically also pay my own salary because I pay the same taxes as you! I don't get a tax break, I don't get any reduction of taxes due to being a teacher.
Phillip Cleary
9:19 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
If someone want's to hand out blame for this look to your Union. Your Union has donated to the Democrats almost exclusively in this state and the House not the Governor funds the budget. Call Mike Madigan and tell him you want him to cut his 230+ member staff (who by the way are not worried about their retirements) that only exist to help elect Democrats to state offices. This is a failure of the Illinois House of Representatives and no one else.
12:14 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Its a matter of math. At 9.4% of a $55,000 salary, the annual contributions (if fully paid) are $5,170 over 35 years. That adds up to $180,950 in contributions over a 35 year period. Assuming (not always accurate) a 6% ROE, which would be extremely generous nowdays, this totals up to approximately $506,000. Divided by $43,000 and assuming all else in this perfect six-percent model works, there is enough money in the till to pay for about 12 years of benefits.
Since most teachers are living well-beyond their 12 years, I think I'm starting to see the problem. It is not a matter of politics, or Republicans or Democrats. It is simply that the numbers do not add-up.
And frankly, I do not know of a single Constitutional provision or Amendment that entitles one to their "Constitutional Right to a safe and secure retirement." There is contract law, and employee-employer dually mandated provisions within that law, but nothing in our Constitution guarantees you any amount of money from any one person to another, neither does our Constitution guarantee any American can retire comfortably into the sunset. That is bona fide entitlement, "me-first" gibberish.
10:50 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
The math is even worse than that, because a newly retiring.teacher is likely drawing $70k, not $43k, and that number goes up 3% each year no matter what the CPI does. And, many teachers can collect full bennies with less than 35 years in the system. Bernie Madoff's victims were made promises too, but when promises are made by a fraudulent charlatan running a Ponzi scheme who doesn't have the funds to back them up (and in this case the state government and Madoff are basically the same) then the defrauded victims are SOL, especially where (in both cases) the "victims" could have and shouldfhave known that what they were promised was literally too good to be true.....
Mary Van
6:26 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Good thing Ms. Soto in Conneticut did not have that "me first gibberish" mentality.
Edward Andrysiak
10:27 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I believe a couple percent of that amount the teachers claim they paid is for an "instrument" that allows them to cash out in lump sum at retirement for a certain amount. You might think of it as an annuity. I see retirtement figures in the 130 to 140,000 range! As for who paid those monthlies. It was like the jewish madam...you got it, you sel it, and you got it. In most cases the district gave the teachers their retirement deduction included on their check in the gross and then deducted it. This, I am told was an accounting issue and likely a contract requirement by the union which always demands payroll deductions...to save them having to collect and book keep. As to what is fair. I say average out the pensions nationwide and arrive at a figure that is fair and affordable. That beats bankruptcy and getting nothing.
Chronicles of Bob
11:22 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Why do none of take onto account that most teachers are underpaid for much of their careers.... they teach our children... protect them and in many cases are the only mentor they have. Society is not their fault. Most dont judge why a kid is the way they are. The teacher shows up, wipes noses and educates. Most out their heart and souls into their class.... and you idiots are comparing them to bernie madoff... and mad they get a retirment....
Education and health should be funded as much as the military is. After a strong military the health and educatiin of this country is a security issue jusst as much as it is a moral one.
1:46 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Leave the teachers pension whole. If you diagree, give up your own money. And I'm not a teacher.
2:49 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
OK Wayne, so what should we do? Close the state prisons? Check. Cut education funding in half? Eliminate the state police? Stop Highway repairs? State aid to the disabled and menatally ill?Maybe triple the income tax ?(last person with a job to leave the state please turn the lights out...) Double the corporate tax rate so there are no industries left here? Capital, jobs and people all move across state lines more easily than ever. I don't think this state should be run for the sole purpose of paying pensions, but thats where we are heading if nothing is done....
Will County Resident
3:06 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Ok, you can have my pension... oh wait, I don't have one! That's because I shouldn't be paid for work I'm not currently doing.
5:49 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
@ new lenox teacher, you CAN get Social Security and your teacher Pension!
Mary Van
7:30 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Ummm, Kerry, I am a retired teacher and receive NO SOCIAL SECURITY. Not sure where you get your information from, but teachers do not pay into ss.....so you don't receive the ss. AND.......if you did work a part time job in the summer, and paid into ss, because your TRS benefit is higher, you won't receive ss. That's just the law.
11:13 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Mary, if you paid enough into Social Security, you can collect your teacher pension and Social Security.
Mary Van
11:39 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Kerry....no, you are wrong. That law changed (maybe about 10 years ago), and is based off of percentages. They are two public pension systems (government paid), both paid into by employees. Social security for people who don't work for a government position, and TRS, IMRF, SURS, and others systems for those employees who worked in a governement position. Honestly, I don't know how government retirement systems like IMRF and SURS work.....I know IMRF workers do pay 4.5% ss, and 4.5% IMRF, unlike TRS workers (teachers and administrators) that pay 9.4% completely into TRS....nothing goes to SS. However, teachers do pay into medicare, and can receive medicare insurance at medicare age.
Now, "juvenal" must believe TRS benefits are better than SS benefits.....and I have to say that just depends on your final position, how many degrees (depending on individual school contract), and where you retired from. Teachers retiring out of Hinsdale will have a great retirement due to the financial wealth found in that town, however teachers out of Joliet won't. There are many, many factors involved. I can say that school districts do not offer 401K and IRA, nothing of that nature....simply 9.4% into TRS.
Teachers are taking a big hit for being the reason for the pension crisis that exists today....some say they are "bloated"....however, many, many groups from both sides of the aisle were at the table when the pension formulas where written.
Mary Van
11:44 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Continued from above.......
Seems like no one in the state government wanted to prepare for when the "baby boomers" hit the retirement age....this should have been though of years ago, and worked on, but the state government kicked that can down the street, and here we are. There is not a single teacher out there that would disagree that there is a pension crisis. What upsets us the most is that proposals and so called solutions and rushed, and pushed through without all groups having educated input, just politicians putting a quick fix bandaid on the situation, and kicking the can further down the street for future generations to fix.....Illinois is so notorious.
There is also the fact that Illinois politicians used money earmarked for state retirement funds for other projects, which is really what caused the pension crisis, but that is the untold story here, which is unfortunate.
This is a mess, but to say it is all the teachers' fault, is unfair
11:48 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Mary ,if you paid enough into SS you CAN collect both.
Mary Van
5:20 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Then I have to ask you Kerry, how come I am denied SS benefits? I did have part time job in which I paid into SS, but still have been denied.
1:58 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
No you can NOT! Where are you getting your information?
Even if you had enough full time hours to meet the qualifying factors...you can't claim both. Furthermore, if a teacher becomes disabled they also are not able to collect SS Disability!
8:09 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Mary, to get the SS benefits you have to qualify . Which means you would have had to work and pay in a certain minimum. If you have qualified, you would have to give up a portion of your TRS benefits to get SS. Its possible you did not work enough part time.
2:02 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Kerry, since you are so intelligent, and seem to feel that teaching is such a GREAT gig...maybe you should go back to school and get your teaching degree, so that you too can take advantage of all of the perks you feel teachers have. Then get back us know how that "worked out"!
12:01 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Also, if you are in IMRF , you can collect SS as well.
Mary Van
5:22 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Yes, as I explained in my previous post....IMRF system goes like this.....4.5% into IMRF, and 4.5% into SS, that is how that system works. TRS is different. I'm not sure about other governmental retirement systems, if they are split like IMRF.
Carl LaFong
12:17 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
I think all of you people who are focusing on public sector retirement benefits should look at the big picture. At this point in time our business leaders are determined to make sure their profits come at the expense of those who can not defend themselves.
In the sacred business world, corporate pensions have been looted for years and in many cases left the government with the bill. The long term plan for these greedy leaders is now at the point where the only pensions they have left to destroy are social security and public sector pensions.
We need to stand together and quit attaching each other, since everyone without a high six or seven figure salary will be left with nothing. It will all be stolen from us like this country did to the Indians, African slaves, Middle-Eastern oil, etc. I love my country but since we are finding it difficult to steal from other countries we are now turning on our own.
Think about the big picture.
Mary Van
5:24 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Well said Carl....let's start with these politicians in Springfield....
6:46 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g.
8:38 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Mary, you also know that you can collect IMRF at the age of 55. You get 3 % raise each year.
Mary Van
9:39 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
Do you get the full benefit at age 55, or is there a penalty for retiring at this age? I know in TRS, you can currently retire with full pension at age 55 IF you have 35 years of experience, which the majority of teachers will not have. Depending on when they are hired as a full time teacher, most teachers will not have 35 years of experience in until after the age of 58, especially women who may take maternity/family time. If a teacher decides to retire before they have put in 35 years of experience, they will have a penalty, usually decreasing the percentage in which their annuity is calculated.
6:46 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Of course for SS you cannot get your full benefit ( a fraction of what TRS would pay to someone with a similar salary history) until age 67, no matter how many years of full time work precede that (often between 40 and 50)...
2:05 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
55, 65, 75 ....it is all a calculated figure. You do not just get a fully paid pension, just because you chose to retire. Or heaven forbid, have to, due to illness....and remember, you will not get SSD either.
10:07 pm on Sunday, January 13, 2013
I worked for 20 years, but was not in IMRF the entire 20 years. There is no penalty to take the pension at 55. IMRF advises you not to wait as there is no advantage to waiting.
2:12 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Before you get all excited Kerry, ask what a IMRF average pension is at the age of 55. You may be shocked as to how low it is....and remember IMRF pensions are also able to collect SS too when they become of age. AND as for teachers being able to retire with reduced pensions earlier than 67 years of age. The private sector can draw on their 401k's after age 59 w/o penalty and than at 67 (or 65) collect social security benefits. I hope you can see, that there is no "cookie cutter" system to retirement and to stop bashing the teaching professions.....or no one will enter into it. This would be devastating to all!
12:09 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
In School District 230 (Stagg, Andrew, Sandburg), TRS is paid 100% for the administrators. See what happens when a school administrator from another district (Carol Baker in 218) is voted into office. Prior to her being on the board, the administrators paid thier own TRS. That's a 9.4% raise they get each year. If the voters were smart, they would not re-elect her or Laura Murphy to the school board. Ben Twietmeyer is a 218 teacher also. You want our taxes to go up and up and up, keep voting for these people. My spouse and I are looking to relocate to a different state as soon as we can.
Take a moment to view what teachers in 230 make at
and at
Go ahead and tell me teachers are underpaid!
12:21 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
Taken directly from 230 website. It was very hard to find I might add. It's hidden.
Look at what they make under retirement enhancement and other benefits.
12:52 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
One thing public employees don't like exposed about their cheating the Social Security system is that 'retirement" benefits are not all it pays for. It also pays for disability checks (often of questionable justification), welfare, and widow and orphan benefits. Often these recipients paid little or nothing into the system, but are eligible for the benefits nonetheless. Public workers who don't contribute to SSC don't support the disabled and indigient as those of us in SSC do, and it's time that public employees started paying their fair share to the needy instead of shirking that duty with ALL their contributions going to their personal benefit.
Also, SSC benefits paid by taxpayers are limited by outside salaries. Since public pensions are given so early that recipients more often than not get second careers, often by subsitute teacheinig where they "retired" from or other public jobs. they should be subject to the same pension reductions as SSC recipients for salary income.
It's time for making public employees pay their fair share, and suffer the same limitations, as the rest of us. They currently pay for less than half of their benefits, FAR less than half when end of career spiking and early retirement prorams are considered. It's time to "level the playing field" for new employees and those not yet retired!


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County Executive Introduces $732M Budget
County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo says Essex on sound fiscal footing with $31 million surplus
County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo introduced a $732 million budget Thursday that would cost the average homeower $62 more in 2013, NJ.com reported.
DiVincenzo's budget increases the tax levy by 1.75 percent and marks the fourth consecutive year without layoffs or furloughs, the site wrote.
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8:57 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Why, every year, does Big Government Joe D brag about not laying County employees off. He works for us, the taxpayers, not the County Employee Unions. His first responsibility is to deliver the most efficient utilization of our money that he can and not excessively worry and panic about having to lay people off. If some lost their jobs because the Essex Co Government is bloated and spends 90% of their time and money in 25% of the County (Eastern Essex), then so be it.
Personally, if they disbanded the County Govt and sent me my tax dollars back, I would be happy to send it to the Caldwell Town Hall, where I know it will be spent more efficiently and more effectively.
What a crock. We pay for Pre School for our own children plus we pay for PK for children in Newark, Orange, EO, Irvington, etc.
10:00 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
If Essex County is on such sound fiscal footing, with $31 million surplus, why are taxes still going up an average $62.00 per homeowner??
10:22 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Read the Star-Ledger article linked. The answer is right there. It's to maintain the county's bond rating, he says.
5:19 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
I read it....I still don't understand how there hasn't been any cuts in the last 4 years and we're talking about a surplus while asking the taxpayers for more money.
I certainly want to maintain the county's good bond rating...but raising taxes and not making cuts is the easy way out. Unfortunately, it's par for the course in Essex County...I'm don't understand how Joe D can tell people that he's raising their taxes...but the good news is we've made no cuts to staff the last 4 years.
10:19 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Duh, Ralph - so Joe D (as he loves to be called) doesn't have to ever lay someone off. If he did that the unions might be mad at him. In the meanwhile, he will continue to transfer money from West Essex to East Essex via County Taxes. The money in Essex flows from West to East and the total $$$ spent on parks, etc is overweighted...not in our favor. This is one of the last true political machines left in NJ
Tom Measday
11:41 am on Friday, January 11, 2013
Maybe there would be no need for tax increase if Joe D and his cronies would stop double dipping (pension and pay)
Stuart Weissman
1:18 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
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5:24 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
The complex has been good for West Orange.....It gives people a very positive impression of our town. Hopefully it will bring in enough people that we can revitalize that stretch of Northfield across and East (?) of the zoo.
Speaking of that stretch....anyone have word on the construction that was to be started at Essex House last June??
Adam Kraemer
10:21 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
We have 14 elected officials in Essex County. All 14 are Progressive Democrats maybe that is the problem. Maybe we need to change the NJ Constitution to end county government. We really don't need both municipal and county government any way one or the other please. Until the voters vote for change we are stuck. I ran for Freeholder once and lost. I might try again as I want small government and less expensive government.
8:28 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013
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Security Monitoring and Enforcement with Cfengine 3
Cfengine, from the start, has had security as a key part of its design and use scenarios. Here, I demonstrate how Cfengine 3 can be used to increase the security of a Linux system by monitoring file checksums, monitoring filesystems for suspicious filenames, monitoring running processes, monitoring open ports and managing sshd.conf.
Because Cfengine 3 is under active development, I suggest you install the latest version from the Cfengine Source Archive (see Resources).
The purpose of this article is to give practical examples of how you can use Cfengine to increase security on a Linux system. See the Quick Start Guide in the Resources section of this article for help in learning the Cfengine language. (I don't provide a tutorial on the Cfengine language here.) This article is based on Cfengine version 3.1.5a1.
Cfengine 3.1.4 shipped with 214 unit tests that can double as examples of Cfengine's functionality. They are installed to /usr/local/share/doc/cfengine/. I've adopted unit_change_detect.cf into detect_changes_in_etc.cf (Listing 1).
Listing 1. detect_changes_in_etc.cf
# GNU GPL 3 ################################################### # # Change detect # ################################################### body common control { bundlesequence => { "detect_changes_in_etc" }; } ################################################### bundle agent detect_changes_in_etc { files: "/etc" changes => detect_all_change, depth_search => recurse("inf"); } ################################################### body changes detect_all_change { report_changes => "all"; update_hashes => "true"; } ################################################### body depth_search recurse(d) { depth => "$(d)"; }
Run this with:
cf-agent -KIf detect_changes_in_etc.cf
cf-agent is the component of Cfengine that actually makes changes to the system. (There are other components to serve files, monitor system activity and so on. cf-agent is the piece that makes changes to the system, and the one you'd use to start learning Cfengine.) In the command above:
-K — tells cf-agent to ignore time-based locks and allows you to run cf-agent repeatedly (no "cool-off" period, which might otherwise kick in to prevent system overload).
-I — tells cf-agent to inform you of its actions and any changes made to the system.
-f — specifies the policy filename.
On the first pass, cf-agent builds a file information database containing file timestamps and inode numbers and builds an MD5 hash for each file. You should see something like this:
# cf-agent -KIf detect_changes_in_etc.cf !! File /etc/hosts.allow was not in MD5 database - new file found I: Made in version 'not specified' of 'detect_changes_in_etc.cf' near line 22 ... #
There are two messages here, alert and info.
Cfengine prefixes its output to help you understand what kind of output it is (in other words, metadata):
Informational messages start with "I".
Reports start with "R".
Alerts start with !! or ALERT.
Notice of changes to the system starts with ->.
In the above case, the alert message is accompanied with an info message about the policy that was in effect when the alert was produced, its version number (if supplied) and the line number.
I didn't specify the version number, but the line number is useful. Line 22 is:
changes => detect_all_change,
This is the line responsible for Cfengine adding /etc/passwd to the MD5 database. It tells Cfengine what to do about changes—to detect them.
Now, I run cf-agent again, and it runs quietly. The contents of /etc match the MD5 sum database:
# cf-agent -KIf detect_changes_in_etc.cf #
Next, I edit /etc/hosts.allow to add "sshd: ALL" to simulate an unauthorized change. Watch cf-agent scream:
# cf-agent -KIf detect_changes_in_etc.cf !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALERT: Hash (MD5) for /etc/hosts.allow changed! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -> Updating hash for /etc/hosts.allow to MD5=2637c1edeb55081b330a1829b4b98c45 I: Made in version 'not specified' of './detect_changes_in_etc.cf' near line 22 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALERT: inode for /etc/hosts.allow changed 38901878 -> 38901854 ALERT: Last modified time for /etc/hosts.allow changed Sat Jan 29 17:09:26 2011 -> Mon Jan 31 08:00:02 2011 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #
There are three alerts:
MD5 hash changed (because the contents changed).
The inode number changed (when vi saved the file).
The modification time changed (when vi saved the file).
Reminder: messages about actions that Cfengine takes are prefixed with "->":
-> Updating hash for /etc/hosts.allow to MD5=2637c1edeb55081b330a1829b4b98c45
You can set up Cfengine to complain via e-mail or syslog, so even if the intruder tampers with the MD5 database, the alarm will sound. In commercial versions of Cfengine (Nova), you can set up multiple Cfengine nodes to share their MD5 databases and monitor and cross-check each other.
You can run this check fairly often—every five minutes, if you like and if your hardware will sustain it. (Computing lots of MD5 sums can be expensive on CPU and disk I/O.) Is the added security worth it to you?
Aleksey Tsalolikhin has been a UNIX/Linux system administrator for 14 years.
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NEW YORK, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lawyers representing Togliattiazot (TOAZ), the world's largest ammonia producer, appealed in an open letter to Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, head of the investigations committee Alexander Bastrykin, and chairwoman of the State Duma's anticorruption committee Irina Yarovaya, bringing their attention to a possible multi-billion corruption scheme related to Togliattiazot. The investigation can affect the ammonia producer, according to the research note by RUXX Index that tracks Russian companies.
This is the second appeal to the Russian authorities issued by TOAZ lawyers, who requested the government intervention to help them fight off what they perceive as the raider attack on the company. The investigations committee of the Samara region where Togliattiazot is headquartered issued a formal reply but no investigation was conducted and the company is still in the midst of the anti-raider effort.
In their letter, Togliattiazot lawyers assert that Uralchem, one of the minority shareholders, made a deal with an affiliated company to sell their TOAZ shares and that the deal was cancelled because TOAZ lawyers declined to provide a list of shareholders. Uralchem initiated a legal action against TOAZ asking for $250mln in damages. Togliattiazot lawyers believe that there are no grounds for legal action because there were no damages in the first place.
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New federal website allows prospective college students to compare institutions of interest.
The cost to attend County College of Morris is low compared to its national counterparts, according to a new, interactive website designed by the United States Department of Education.
The website, created after President Barack Obama called for colleges to be held accountable for "cost, value and quality," gives families and prospective students critical information to make decisions on college choices, according to the Department of Education.
According to the Scorecard, the average net price (the cost after grants and scholarships are subtracted) to attend County College of Morris is $5,195. The analysis also showed the net price increased 4.8-percent from 2007 to 2009.
"We know students and families are often overwhelmed in the college search process–but feel they lack the tools to sort through the information and decide which school is right for them," said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in a statement. "The College Scorecard provides a snapshot about an institution's cost and value to help families make smart decisions about where to enroll."
The graduation rate for County College of Morris was on the low end of the medium bracket, tallying a 21.6-percent figure, the Scorecard showed. Some 27.8-percent of students transferred to another institution, the analysis showed.
One category in which County College of Morris was ahead of the national average is loan default rate. Borrowers attending CCM defaulted on their Federal student loans within three years of entering repayment at a 10.2-percent rate, while the U.S. average is 13.4-percent.
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The Wall Street Journal has been running articles on "bang for the buck" comparing college costs against opportunities. Like housing and our financial system, the higher education institutions will (and probably should...) collapse under their own weight of outrageous costs and burden placed on students. A BA/BS degree has become a commodity with almost the same value as a "certificate" of 30+ years ago. A long as people believe that education at "any cost" is not wasted, the colleges and universities will have their doors open and hands in the pockets of students. Students and parents really need to weigh and act on the equation of earning potential vs cost of attendance. In my opinion, smart money goes to Junior College and figures how best to transfer the credits earned to a 4 year school to obtain the degree that best suits their pursuit. God help the those that graduate with $75-100k in dept with a starting salary of $35k if lucky.
10:49 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
Chuck, you hit the nail on the head. Now, a BA is like a HS diploma was 30 years ago. Now its almost expected that you have a BA if you want to work in an office and people are looking at a Masters Degree as something special, not just a BA.
And yes, I was told go to college, you need to go to a good school to get a good job. I went to a good school and got a job working next to people went to lesser known school. Its not how much the school costs, its that you have a Bachelors degree. Nobody looks at the school, they just want to know you have a degree.
What I should have done was go to CCM for 2 years, lived and worked at home, got my associates degree and then went away to school. But.. I also would have hated my life living at home. lol. So its a trade off. Have better, more fulfilling social life, or save $$$.
10:24 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
No matter what college you go to, do whatever you can to not have student loans. I went to a good school, graduated with 40K in student loans, after a few years I got a good job and am STRUGGLING now to pay them off. Yeah, I got a good paying job, but I am also paying $700 a month for my student loans. I can't help but wonder if I didn't go to college, how much would I be making right now. If I made $8400 less a year, I'd be in the same spot.... but I would have had 4 more years of experience under my belt.
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11:01 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
Collage costs are out of control! I don't understand why kids going to school in western states, who graduate from in state high schools pay very little or no tuition for state collage? Case in point: U of New Mexico. Tuition paid for by lottery funding. Kids pay zero with 3.0 GPA and above, some pay a portion when GPA falls below 3.0. Granted U of New Mexico is not Harvard, but it's on par with many state schools out east. Just my two cents...
Comfortably Numb
2:33 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
Walter, where did you go to "collage"?
what comes around goes around :)
Comfortably Numb
3:01 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
To answer your question.... In state kids who go to college at a state school will typically pay much lower tuition throughout most of the country, not just in the west. Wealthier areas such as our metropolitan area do not have much lower in state rates because folks are willing to finance it in our area. What you didn't mention in your comment is that the in state rates at these schools out West and in the South are experiencing dramatic decreases in the in-state population. The University of Alabama for instance has an in-state rate of only 30% and that's because they are able to draw from more affluent areas who are willing to pay 35K per year. This has also sparked an extremely competitive environment for kids that live in the state and want to go to these state schools. It makes sense from the schools economic perspective, of course you will always have anomalies like the University of North Carolina which has a super high in-state percentage. For the most part its about supply and demand.
Hope that helps Walter
3:10 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013
Everything is more expensive in the Northeast. For a NJ Resident to go to Rutgers its $25,000. For a non-resident its, $38,000. (Which is pretty close to what I paid going to my out of state Private University).
We have a lottery here, too, that goes to pay for education and healthcare. However, since the politicians find a way to raid any account where there is $$$ stored, I am sure it goes to other things like pensions, benefits and other "perks" leaving the poor students and their families to pay for their education.
Needless to say, I am happy I went to my University instead of a local "collage". ha
The Good Guy
11:33 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013
How many college teachers do you know that are millionaires? At $25,000 a year for college education per student, that means that the school generates 1 million dollars for every 40 students that go to that school per year. That's $1,000,000! If a school has 400 students, that's $10,000,000 per year. If it costs that much to run a college for a year, then something is wrong.
Where does all this money go? It doesn't go to the teachers, that's for sure.
College is overpriced and will eventually destroy our country. I know kids who dropped out of college because they cannot afford it and still have a 20K loan to pay off. I know families who sold their house and moved into an apartment to pay for college. I know families who completely cashed out their 401Ks to pay for college so they are in the 50s with NO retirement income at all and no pension. I have seen articles of parents who have done illegal things to make money in order to pay for college.
And yet, the politicians ignore this issue over and over again. Educating young Americans to be the smartest in the world should be our number one priority, but it seems the number one priority, as always, is the mantra of our capitalistic (not democratic) society:
The One Who Dies With The Most Toys ... Wins.
Reality Chuck
8:59 am on Sunday, February 17, 2013
"Educating young Americans to be the smartest in the world"....is exact mantra that these institutions hide behind. It is equivalent to "peace in our time"; "energy selfsufficient";"you can be anything you want to be". I agree with everthing else you say but everytime I hear a politician tie education funding to such a broad immeasurable goal, I know it is a smoke screen.
2:24 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013
honestly many private top 50 schools offer a top merit scholarship of 20-25K and those are few and far between leaving parents in this area to foot a 60K a year bill. there is no way anyone in the upper half of the middle class can afford the top schools even if their kid has near perfect SATs, and straight As.
We are once again allowing our top students to suffer in this country.


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