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Governor Guts State Services
Pigs at the State Trough
It is almost as if the lying, biased, divisive, distorting, obfuscating, omitting, Muslim-hating, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Zionist-controlled, piece of crap wants to turn us against each other.
They always complaining about the UNION GUY, the COP, the FIREFIGHTER, etc, etc.
Oh, and while you ponder why you can't afford school, keep this in mind.
"I'm double dipping and I'm happy to be doing it," said Ralph Olsen, 62, who is finishing up his second year as principal of Durfee High School in Fall River and plans to return next school year. Olsen, who retired as Framingham High School principal in 2004, earns $87,311 a year in pension income and makes $140,000 a year in his new position....
Eugene Thayer... earns $192,000 a year as superintendent of Framingham schools.... His pension is worth an additional $85,000 a year"
This while teachers are being laid off and budgets cut.
Oh, yeah, and guess who is responsible for this commotion in the library?
Yeah, that's right: MY STINK STATE SENATOR!
"Senator Stanley C. Rosenberg, Democrat of Amherst, is listed in official documents as bringing the amendment to the floor. But Rosenberg said in an interview that he did not author the amendment and does not know who did."
WTF?
Doesn't even know what is happening in his own committee -- or is he just lying?
Glad I didn't vote for him.
"Increasingly light library board duty doubled pension of former senator" by Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff | February 11, 2009
.... If John A. Brennan Jr. collects his pension for 18 years, as actuarial tables predict he will, his pension receipts will total about $740,000. The cost of almost all of that pension, according to state law, must be split proportionately between the state and Malden, a city often strapped for cash, including a $1.5 million cut in state aid for the current year. Brennan himself has contributed about $70,000 toward his pension, mostly through a payroll deduction during his years in Legislature.
Since when has the Globe cared about taxpayer $$$$?
Brennan declined to comment. "I am not inclined to discuss my private matters with you," he said.
Who can blame the guy? I wouldn't want to talk the that agenda-pushing piece of shit either.
He is scheduled to begin drawing his pension at the end of this month, state officials said.
Brennan's case is a prime example of pension practices on Beacon Hill in which obscure amendments and bills that fly through the Legislature with little attention are often worth thousands of dollars for certain retirees.
That's MASSACHUSETTS POLITICS and HAS BEEN for DECADES! However, if youm criticize the liberal Democrats around here... treason.
Lawmakers frequently submit bills to pad the pensions of individual municipal or state workers, and occasionally these measures pass. For example, the Legislature has passed special bills in recent years giving dozens of police officers and firefighters increases in their disability pensions, with no formal medical scrutiny required.
But TAX BREAKS and GIVEAWAYS to CORPORATIONS? No problem.
When the amendment that Brennan capitalized upon was passed in 1998, it baffled the few who noticed it, not least because library trustees typically spend only a couple of hours a month helping to set library policy and budgets at board meetings.
"I was a bit perplexed when library trustees were singled out, because there are dozens of other public servants in a municipality who do not get this benefit," said Michael Sacco, a lawyer who represents dozens of municipal retirement boards statewide.
The law's enactment was a surprise even to the group that represents the state's library trustees.
"We only found out about it after it passed," said Robert C. Maier, director of the Board of Library Commissioners, the state agency that advises local libraries. "We didn't propose it, and we didn't work on it in any way."
Maier said he didn't know what possible rationale the Legislature had in mind for including library trustees in the state pension law. Library board members rarely, if ever, get any financial gain from the job, he said.
Yeah, that's not really a GROWTH INDUSTRY, is it?
"All the library trustees I know and have dealt with over the years freely give their time to serve their communities, without expectations of pay or pensions," he said.
In theory, the law made all of the state's 2,500 volunteer library trustees eligible. But the law limits the pension benefit to trustees in municipalities where local officials have voted to adopt it. And only Malden has put it to use.
So they CUT THEIR OWN THROATS, did they?
The law is also limited to trustees with public sector service before or after their terms on the library board, which, coincidentally or not, applies to Brennan. Moreover, Brennan is the only library trustee in the state to have benefited from the law in 10 years, according to a survey of officials in the handful of municipalities that inadvertently adopted the library trustees measure as part of a legislative change in cost-of-living increases for municipal retirees....
So, WHO DID HE KNOW?!!!!
Senator Stanley C. Rosenberg, Democrat of Amherst, is listed in official documents as bringing the amendment to the floor. But Rosenberg said in an interview that he did not author the amendment and does not know who did....
Yeah, PASS the BUCK, Stan, you piece of sh**!!!!!
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