I know, I know.....Just when you think I am going to have a Pauline " Road to Damascus " epiphany, I jump the rails...
So, as you know, Gov. Abbott in the Special Session of the Texas Legislature, called for Texas retired teachers to get a 13th check. ( We need a COLA, but they won't turn loose of OUR money....It's our money because Texas teachers pay each month into the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. The money doesn't come out of thin air. It's what we've paid into the system for many of us, 30+ years)
The Texas Senate has already passed the bill giving the 13th check to retired teachers. The House of course doesn't have quorum. The Democrats have left town.
Fuck them.
The Republicans are not without blame here too.
1. A House Committee passed a 13th check for retired teachers in the regular session which end in May. The Republican leadership never let the full bill reach the House floor and it died without a vote....
2. Now the Senate Republicans are using the retired teachers as pawns in the House Democrats leaving town by saying, " Well, they are not here to vote on giving retired teachers a 13th check."
Hell, they could have taken care of this in May.
The money is in the Teacher Retirement Fund. This in spite of the Texas House and Senate taking our money out of the fund and " investing" it into a Grand Prix racetrack in Austin, that hasn't paid back a dime yet.
A pox on both their houses....
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