Get out and work for retirement

What is happening to this America? What happen to work eight hours, get eight hours pay? What makes a teacher so special and one better than the other? If you did not do your job as ordered, you got fired for not meeting the standards.

Since when do you have to give a teacher special pay and if you didn't she would go to another school? My response to that would be, "Don't let the door hit you on the butt."

When we worked, we had to pay our dues, and part went to our pension,

Our house has gone down in value, but the government kept the taxes the same, taxes are $4,835, on a house worth under $200,000. Yet we pay $91 to the teacher's union, and $2,700 to the school taxes, plus college pension and taxes, plus all the other pensions. Nobody paid for ours but us, these unions got all of America paying for their jobs - not the teachers.

Wake up, America, get out and work for your money and don't have someone like us put it on a silver platter for you when you retire.

Don Leo

Elgin