tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post4763663122276671243..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: State Can't Balance The Budget On My BackDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-91968285919274730302007-11-16T19:41:00.000-08:002007-11-16T19:41:00.000-08:00Learn from the countless mistakes made with the Te...Learn from the countless mistakes made with the Texas Retirement System, which is only accurate in that it is in Texas. It's too disorganized to be a system, it's inadequate as a form of viable retirement income but it is in Texas. The benefits and the pension that Texas teachers receive is balanced largely on the money taken from working teachers right now, which is diminishing rapidly. And thanks to the stupid decision that cuts teachers' access to social security money that we have earned through other jobs in our lives, we are royally screwed. I figure that I will probably end up dying in some classroom trying to convince a kid that Picasso didn't paint Whistler's Mother.Ellen Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02845981491726296767noreply@blogger.com