Kasich’s staff unlikely to share in sacrifice

Has anyone seen this information on Kathie Bracy’s blog – I’m an educator and I have found that the information she provides has been 100% accurate in the past – I haven’t done the math myself but this is really interesting information:

TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011
Teachers and legislators: Molly Ganz does the math and exposes the politicians
From Molly Ganz, March 14, 2011

Politicians picked this fight with teachers and other public workers – the hypocrites! It’s never been about the budget.

An Ohio Legislator earns 1.35 years of service credit per year (and for only about 60 days of work). This means that legislators earn a 30 year pension, at any age, after just 22.22 years of service. This is outrageous!
Ohio legislators receive FULL retirement pension for only 1,380 days in 22.22 years

But teachers’ retirement pension is earned after the minimum 5,550 days in 30 years.
But legislators are saying that collective bargaining has killed the budget. Pants on fire!
Cumulative credit table:

I can’t add the table but it’s located at: http://kathiebracy.blogspot.com/ YOU HAVE TO SCROLL DOWN TO SEE THE TABLE
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POSTED BY KATHIE BRACY AT 10:31 PM

I would put in one caveat re use of this table publicly: I believe the 60 days stipulated for legislators is based on days they are actually in legislative session. They – most of them – work more days outside of session than in. I’ve been in to see a number of legislators over the years and most times it was on days when they were in their offices – but the legislature itself was not in session.

If you say they work only 60 days, based on the mandated number of days in session – they’ll gleefully come back at you with days in their Columbus offices, days at the offices in their home districts, meetings, conferences, etc., to show you that they are really hard-working public servants who, if anything, are underpaid.

Plus they’ll likely point out that they have to face their constituents at least once every two years, something a teacher doesn’t have to do.

Just a cautionary note.

Unless I missed it, the comparison does not actually include Gov. Strickland in his budget, only Lt. Gov. Fisher. The Lt. Gov. is not included in Kasich’s budget so the actual impact on the numbers may be small, but attention to detail is quite important. Unless Strickland made the same or less than Fisher, or Kasich’s Lt. Gov. makes more than Kasich, the percent increase will be less than stated in the article above.

I said THEY (the legislators) would say they’re underpaid – not me.

Yes, there will be shared sacrifice. Ask Ebenezer Kasich about underpaying the support staff to cut back on spending. Why not ask your overpaid toadies to do so? Because we need their sooooo superior talent (plucked from the private sector, NOT) to help the big business welfare queens to steal more money from us than they already do.

I actually looked at multiple months of the Strickland office salary expenses and they were all lower. I decided to go with a year-over-year comparison because it seemed more appropriate than the last few months when people may have left his office or left to work on campaigns and the difference was even greater.

The numbers were intended to show that the total salary paid to Governor’s office employees from funds specifically allocated to the Governor’s office is slightly higher under Kasich.

You could make a point that Strickland did a better job hiding his people at agencies (which I clearly mention in the post) but the conclusion is still the same: Kasich is calling for shared sacrifice – he’s cutting agency budgets by millions of dollars and asking all government employees to suck it up and take less pay and lower benefits – but his own office isn’t impacted at all.

Good leaders lead by example.