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IEA Busts Illinois

December 27, 2012 By 6 Comments

The Republicans in Illinois lost in 2012 because the Democrats are the party of the rich.  They will again win in 2014 if we don’t take out the big source of their money. That source is the Education labor unions, particularly the Illinois Education Association (IEA), subsidiary of the NEA.  These Illinois education unions took $132 million in the year 2010 from the teachers in dues.  That’s an average of about $1,000 per teacher.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in the Beck and Hudson decisions that 80% of that money is for political purposes and that the 80% (approximately $100 million) should be returned to the teachers.  The unions resist that.  Some teachers have succeeded in getting their money back.  The National Right to Work organization has 17 lawyers to help us in that effort.

In the last election the Democrats spent nearly $1 million in the Illinois 52nd House District.  They lost because we fought back with more money than is usually available to Republicans, $150,000 from Jack Roeser, and because Speaker Madigan’s candidate was obviously radical and not well liked in that area.  In other Illinois districts Madigan ran polls all over the State and threw large hunks of those $10 of millions he received from the teachers and overwhelmed the Republicans who had gotten close to victory.

It will happen again in 2014 if we don’t reveal to the voters and to the teachers, what this overly powerful union is doing to education in Illinois.

We have published the “Illinois Pension Scam” book that reveals the excesses in salaries and pensions. Note that the education pension account is about $120 billion in deficit.  That’s too large to ever be paid, the pension fund will just go broke, and the teachers won’t get the pension the IEA has promised them.  Don’t believe the IEA lies that the Legislature hasn’t made enough payments into the dwindling pension fund; no one could keep up with the rapid growth of excessive payments of salaries which produces high pensions.

The education of our kids is very expensive, averaging $16,000 a year (not including the huge pensions which range up to more than $300,000 for top abusers).  That’s $400,000 per class room of the 25 kids for one year.

The K12 education system is horribly managed, due largely to the fact that it is run by the IEA Union.

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  • Wolf

    Certainly the collusion here between the Political Class and the Public Education Unions is an outright fraud upon the taxpayers and a violation of the primary function of the Politician to represent the taxpayers. The excessive Public Education operating costs are a major reason for the ever increasing, oppressive property taxes and are generally over 70% of that tax. Yet the collusion of the Public Education System is not limited to the state but evident at your local School Boards which no longer represent the taxpayers interests as seen in every Public Sector Labor Agreement. A prime example is the over 40% inflation of their defined pension payouts in the last years prior to retirement on top of the already exorbitant salary and benefit structures. It is the dysfunctional Public Education System that is serving itself as the voters are too dumb to understand the fraud that is being perpetrated upon them. If one examines the local election turnouts the bloated Public Sector operations have enough votes from their members and immediate families to defeat most of the opposition today. Add to this the appearance of legitimacy of their fraud through mandates enacted by their Political collusion and this level of corruption, mismanagement and fraud is enshrined into our Public Sector Systems. It was our forefathers who warned us that this system of government is not for a stupid or inattentive citizenry. Clearly the excessive Public Sector operations with their 50% over staffing and compensation levels plus their millionaire pension scams is in need of major restructuring and reform unfortunately this reform can never occur from the inside using the methods or options available. For this level of taxpayer robbery and fraud is systemic throughout the entire Public Sector operations at every level Federal, state and local. Today everyone is focusing on the “Fiscal Cliff” in Washington where the 2013 Budget of $3.8 Trillion is being debated when the Federal Government can easily operate at a $2.4 Trillion level eliminating the deficit today not some mystical decades in the future. If the necessary restructuring and reform of the Public Sector was performed at all levels (Federal, state and local) over $2.5 Trillion annually would be returned to the private sector for real growth and reform of the oppressive taxation levels. Additionally over $37.5 Trillion would be cut from obligations of the Public Sector’s millionaire pension plans. The good news here is the situation will resolve itself in the near term as the impending default of the nation, states and local operations will force the long needed reforms. We have a debt today over $20 Trillion (Treasury and Fed) and we have already gone over the fiscal cliff and are about to hit the “bottom”.

  • Mongolia3

    Does the $16,000 per year to educate children in Illinois include the State of Illinois pension contribution to TRS?
    TRS is a form of a ponzi scheme in that retirees receive more than the sum of the retirees contributions, the school district contributions, the state contributions, and the investment returns.
    The pension hiking legislation in 38 of 40 years from 1971 – 2011 made TRS unaffordable.
    The state will never be able to make it’s full contribution.
    The maneuvers now are just to buy more time until those in power are finished collecting their pensions.

  • Mongolia3

    I learned a lot from reading Illinois Pension Scam.