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5 minutes ago, Muda69 said:
Can you please provide a link to that Indiana legislation?
Could
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To add, Indiana's teachers could opt out of Social Security and into a system like Alaska's, but we don't hear @Irishman or @Coach Nowlin clamoring for change.
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1 minute ago, Muda69 said:
So as a liberal progressive you believe the vast majority of Americans are too stupid to "take charge of their own retirement". Got it.
No, the scientist in me has seen what retirement looks like for people without Social Security. If not having Social security was great, Alaska would not have a teacher shortage.
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1 minute ago, Muda69 said:
So are you personally lobbying your duly elected legislators at the local, state, and federal levels to do just that?
It's not needed in the State of Nevada, other than the creation of a unicameral legislature.
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32 minutes ago, Frozen Tundra said:
I think it’s beneath Bloomington South and Columbus North to do that.
It would also not make sense for the HHC to have teams with the same mascot.
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18 minutes ago, Frozen Tundra said:
I think Bloomington North would at least entertain the idea.
I see BHSN as the most realistic candidate.
If they joined, that would probably trigger a collapse of CI.
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4 minutes ago, Muda69 said:
Nice to know you put nationality above competency.
I put it above religion.
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5 minutes ago, Muda69 said:
And when does that happen? When you decide it is outdated?
Whenever legislators decide so; or when the laws and institutions stop functioning.
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4 minutes ago, Muda69 said:
What does Spongebob Squarepants have to do with individual takings charge of their own retirement?
"Taking charge of [their own] retirement" is something right-wingers have been spouting about for years.
Read the article about the meme.
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22 minutes ago, Muda69 said:
All current Catholic justices were nominated by Republican Presidents, except for Sonia Sotamayor who was nominated by Mr. Obama. I guess she gets a pass by you, right?
Her being Puerto Rican certainly helps earn a pass.
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23 minutes ago, Muda69 said:
When the legislators who initially proposed it die?
Whenever the laws become outdated.
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24 minutes ago, Muda69 said:
Why do you write that phrase in that matter?
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3 hours ago, Frozen Tundra said:
2021-Present (7 Members):
Madison departs.
BNL, Columbus East, Floyd Central, Jeffersonville, Jennings County, New Albany, and Seymour
Who do you think should be the 8th member, if any?
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On 8/23/2022 at 7:45 AM, Muda69 said:
lol, wish the vast majority of legislation passed by government these days would follow that mantra.
The status quo is Social Security, and we now have a test case where people could "TAKE CHarGE Of ThEiR retiRemEnt". And Alaska's experiment failed.
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3 hours ago, Muda69 said:
Using that logic Dante every law on the books should be removed when those who proposed or signed the passed legislation die.
We do periodically re-codify laws. Indiana's Constitution is from 1851, 35 years after statehood. The Indiana Code dates to 1976.
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3 hours ago, Muda69 said:
So you believe being a Catholic should disqualify you from being a Supreme Court justice?
No, but the ones on SCOTUS have an awful track record. The Dred Scott case was written by a Catholic, after all.
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13 hours ago, Muda69 said:
And does one assume your hatred primarily revolves abound the sexual abuse of children by priests?
The British said it best-
Don't believe me? Look at the SCOTUS.
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10 hours ago, Muda69 said:
The Progressives were wrong more than a century ago.
No they weren't, they just didn't go far enough.
10 hours ago, Muda69 said:Constitutions also help bind our country together, not just across geography, but throughout time.
Because G-d knows a bunch of dead slave owners should rule from the grave.
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7 minutes ago, Muda69 said:
Your hatred of Catholicism is duly noted.
...and it's grounded in solid evidence.
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6 minutes ago, Muda69 said:
Given that I also champion the entire dissolution of government funded education I don't really care whether or not Alaska government employees have a defined pension or a 401k.
Yes you do, because your ideas must be proven before they are implemented. If not having Social Security was better, Alaska would have higher teacher retention rates and would not have a shortage of applicants. Instead, the opposite is happening.
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On 6/22/2022 at 12:13 PM, Muda69 said:
School Choice and Religious Liberty Advocates Just Won Big at the Supreme Court
A win for school choice.
And this is why we need a Federal Blaine Amendment.
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8 hours ago, Robert said:
I haven't been in a school system that pushes college over trade over work over whatever fits best in over 20 years.
Where were you at 20 years ago?
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10 hours ago, Muda69 said:
So based on your statement how in the world do people ever retire?
IDK, but there are people who have your vision of retirement-
From the article-
QuoteThe state’s education department calls the lack of teachers in Alaska an emergency issue and says the pandemic is only making things worse. It’s willing to pay up to $300,000 to figure out how to attract—and keep—more teachers in the state.
Teachers and the union support the move, but they say the number one reason they’re leaving is pretty obvious.
James Harris is Alaska’s 2017 Teacher of the Year, but he doesn’t live or teach in Alaska anymore.
He took his skills and his family to Washington state a few years ago. There were a lot of reasons, he said, but the big one is retirement.
“Unfortunately, the retirement system in Alaska, it was set up in a way that there was just absolutely no way for me to retire with any kind of dignity,” he said.
Harris began teaching in Alaska in 2006, the first year after the state’s Legislature cut teacher pensions known as “defined benefits.” Alaska is the only state in the union that doesn’t offer teachers a pension or social security benefits.
Teacher turnover has hovered above 20% for the last decade. That puts Harris among the one in five teachers that leaves each year.
He said he hoped state leaders would provide funding for education and educators, but eventually decided he couldn’t wait any longer.
Corrine Marks teaches high school English in Juneau and trains teachers-to-be at the University of Alaska Southeast. She also thinks that the loss of defined benefits is the reason behind so many teachers leaving the state.
She has about 30 people in the program right now. Teachers from Alaska are more likely to stay here, but she still sees turnover.
“I’ve had more teachers come and go just here in Juneau, which is an easy place to stay, comparatively, right? Because they have nothing holding them here,” she said.
Marks plans to retire here, so she can collect her pension.
New teachers get retirement benefits in Alaska; they just aren’t pensions. They usually come in the form of contributions to a retirement account. After teaching for five years, Alaska teachers can take those retirement accounts with them if they leave the state.
Union leaders say that leads to “teacher tourism,” where out-of-state teachers have a five-year Alaska adventure and then take their experience home for the rest of their careers — after Alaska has invested in training them.
“I’ve been working on the pensions issue since the state Legislature first ruined it in 2005,” said state Sen. Jesse Kiehl.
He says dropping the pension was a mistake that’s losing the state money and talent. One study estimates Alaska spends $20 million on teacher turnover each year.
He’s supportive of the state’s effort and says the Legislature bears some of the blame for turnover. It’s up to them to fund education, but they haven’t increased funding for more than five years. That puts stress on the whole system.
Kiehl introduced a bill this year that brings back the opportunity for teachers and other public servants that lost pension in 2006, to earn one again. Not a big one, he said, but it’s an incentive to keep families in Alaska.
“By doing away with a pension, we have created a system where the rational economic choice teacher with five years experience is to leave,” he said.
“Is that really the system we want?
So far, it’s the system Alaska’s been choosing. But this year the education department is investing in someone to lead the state towards a solution to the broader problem of attracting and keeping teachers.
“This is not a problem that we can solve by ourselves,” said Michael Johnson, commissioner of the Department of Education and Early Development. “So the department can’t solve it. Not one entity can solve it, not one district, not the Legislature, not the governor. All of us have to work together.”
He agrees pensions and pay are among the biggest issues, but says there’s more than one challenge to teaching in Alaska. Research bears this out. A working group identified six aspects the state should address to attract and keep teaching talent here, things like working conditions and developing leadership.
“The bottom line for me is that we take this report, we take this word from the task force, and then we do something,” said Johnson.
Applications for the job closed on Oct. 15. The state refused to say how many applicants submitted a proposal. The state plans to issue a contract by Nov. 1.
The retirement system used by Alaska is one you champion. Shouldn't it keep and attract people?
And a warning for all the Indiana teachers- you can suffer the same fate as those in Alaska.
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10 hours ago, Muda69 said:
There are less and less defined pensions plans out there.
...and this is why I have a teaching license- PERS.
New York Times Piece Attempts to Dismantle the Constitution
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