Life under the Regency 0
When the kids hit the streets because they don’t know enough to get a job, accompanied by retired teachers whose pensions have been shafted . . . .
The impact would have been more than a billion dollars if legislators hadn’t also cut the amount the state and localities have to contribute to teachers’ retirement plans, he said.
at least they will be able to relieve themselves.
Eighteen facilities closed in July 2009 and the final facility – the Interstate 66 West Manassas Welcome Center – closed in September in an effort to save $9 million annually as the agency grapples with a $4.6 billion revenue shortfall over the next six years.
A pissoir in the hand is worth a physics class in the bush.
Aside: My mother retired after two decades of teaching in Virginia (she went back to work after my brother and I reached high school). The pension check she gets is not very much at all.
If that and social security were all she had, she’d be on the street.
The blatherings of right-wingers who would have the citizenry believe that public employees get some kind of gold-plated retirement are gold-plated nonsense.