Rauner may or may not accomplish his goals, who knows. However, this shit has got to stop...He served 1 day as a substitute teacher and gets 36000 a year for life. It is coming to the point where rational people are not even thinking about how that is the exception not the norm. People will get to the point and just say to hell with it, cut all the pensions, write a new constitution, etc.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-pension-lawsuit-lobbyist-met-20150318-story.html#page=1A union lobbyist who qualified for a teacher pension windfall by subbing at a school for one day is now suing a state retirement board because his benefits were scaled back once his sweet deal was exposed.
Retired Illinois Federation of Teachers lobbyist David Piccioli, 65, is arguing that lawmakers violated the state constitutional provision that says a pension cannot be "diminished or impaired" once it is set.
Piccioli is already collecting
$31,485 from the Teachers Retirement System. If he wins his case, his teacher pension could
increase by more than $36,000, the Tribune estimated — more than doubling what he gets now.
Piccioli also gets a second state pension worth just
over $30,000 that covers time he served as a legislative aide. Both pensions are based on an average of his six-figure salaries as a union lobbyist.
