Sitemap - 2022 - Fred Klonsky in Retirement
Randi Weingarten and Michael Mulgrew reverse teacher union stand on healthcare privatization.
2023 doesn't look good for teacher pension investments.
Lightfoot's half billion dollar payment to city pension funds.
In 2020 both the NEA and the AFT voted to keep single payer out of the DNC platform.
Why did the AFT reject a resolution opposed to Medicare privatization?
FTX, Bankman-Fried and the Chicago connection.
2022. Some of my art from the past year.
Why NY shifting public employees to MA plans should concern all retirees everywhere.
NY's teacher union leadership's healthcare sellout.
FTX bipartisan bribes/donations in dollars or crypto?
As Medicare gets privatized thru MA plans, CMS turns a blind eye.
The FOP and Vallas "crime fighting plan": Unleash the police.
Billions for war. Who is the real Merchant of Death?
The WEP/GPO, Social Security and seniors in poverty.
The cost of Crohn's Disease. The insurance industry and preauthorization.
No NY Times today. No Wordle. No problem.
What the racist Chicago Machine learned from Dixie: The run-off election.
Democrats paid sick leave bill was all performance.
Can corporations be too big to strike? Hell no.
Alder Eddie Burke and cash bail.
Nine of ten Covid deaths in U.S. are 65 and older.
Trump and Nick Fuentes do lunch.
Leftover turkey. Rod Paige, Mike Pompeo and the teachers' unions.
Chicago and Cook County are part of the movement for a guaranteed basic income.
Guns. Hate. Mental illness. Another week of tragedy.
Hakeem Jeffries. More of the same and more.
I have a suggestion of protections to add to the Illinois constitution
Crook County corruption. Our property taxes are too damn high.
My little home's property tax doubled. Trump Tower got a 30% tax break. Don't blame Fritz.
The biggest strike of the year.
MAGA threats to Social Security may have been a gift to Democrats.
The MAGA movement is far from dead.
The Social Security benefit is tied to inflation. My teacher pension is not.
It seems like more of a pink tinkle than a red tsunami.
A MAGA House of Representatives would cut retirement benefits.
The Illinois Worker Rights Amendment to the state constitution. Vote yes. Reject MAGA lies.
I'm a union guy so I get hate mail like this.
U.S. Senate report: Medicare Advantage uses deceptive advertising to scam seniors.
Medicare Advantage for NYC teachers. Mulgrew isn't going rogue. It's AFT President Weingarten.
Forcing NYC retirees to private Medicare Advantage.
MAGA Court poised to ban college diversity considerations.
The liberal retreat from their call for de-escalation and peace talks.
Medicare Advantage users respond to NY Times expose of insurance industry.
"Bad timing" for pursuing diplomacy and peace.
My letter to the Chicago Tribune.
2023 tax brackets work best for the rich.
Bailey wants to cut state school funding even as Illinois is already way behind in full funding.
OTC hearing aids are far short of what is needed.
Voting for Illinois' Workers' Rights Amendment.
Medicare Advantage open enrollment season.
IBD and Crohn's disease in the Global South.
Privatizing Medicare, Medicare Advantage and the crooked insurance industry.
Lightfoot acted on public pensions while Springfield continues to diddle.
The MAGA attack on Chicago as a "hell hole" doesn't hold up.
Lightfoot's radical public pension plan: Pay more than the minimum.
Darren Bailey's racist attack on Chicago and the Safe-T act bail reform.
Chicago Mayor and unions agree on 12 weeks paid parental leave.
Arizona installs 1874 abortion ban. Reproductive rights are still threatened in Illinois.
Illinois' pension solution. Tier 1 teacher retirees are dying off.
Alder Eddie Burke, Trump Tower and Trump's "staggering fraud."
"The pandemic is over." The privatization of Covid testing and vaccinations is imminent.
Mo. A rare representation of an immigrant Palestinian Muslim on American TV.
Patient debt is piling up despite the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
Crossing borders. Immigrants and those seeking reproductive rights.
Illinois state retirees facing a health insurance switch.
Justice Anne Burke and the Chicago City Council's great resignation.
Illinois can make right-to-work Illegal by passing the constitutional amendment.
Tying minimum-wage increases to inflation.
Hooked on tennis for a couple of weeks.
The NAEP scores and the myth of learning decline.
Posting from the hell hole. What if god was one of us?
Pelosi's Taiwan visit started something. Now Biden's billion dollar weapons deal.
Pritzker and removing political agendas from my teacher pension investments.
What ever happened to Garry McCarthy?
Student debt. Why isn't college free?
Nuclear power is not green and Bill Gates is heavily invested in it.
Florida's Ron DeSantis and teacher pensions.
The Inflation Reduction Act. Bill Gates brokered the deal.
Mayor Lighfoot's budget. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Congress gives teachers a $50 tax break.
Pension math. You're entitled to your own opinion, not your own facts.
Will they do Trump like they did Capone?
If you're over 50 get a colon screening and other news.
If Senate Democrats can pass a reconciliation bill.
What's the matter with Kansas?
Biden backs off charter regulation campaign promises.
Public pension investment returns take a dive.
Why is Pelosi going to Taiwan? Do we really need more to stress about?
Pat Quinn as Chicago mayor? No thanks.
1919. Harry Haywood and Chicago's Red Summer.
The Court's Roe decision. Did you think they are going to stop at abortion rights?
Ending universal free school lunch.
Illinois teacher pensions. Protections and threats.
I've been watching the January 6th hearings.
On top of everything else they're paying teachers less.
In Illinois workers rights will be on the ballot.
AIPAC spends 7 million dollars to buy a congressional seat in Maryland.
Biden's support among young voters couldn't be lower.
The long and winding road. Justice for Chicago's alderman Eddie Burke.
Privatizing Social Security. Biden's appointment of Andrew Biggs must be rejected.
A pro-life America shoots its children.
An assault weapon ban in Illinois.
This is what democracy looks like. Two billionaires sitting in a room.
The Ukraine War. The U.S. moves the goal posts.
NEA meets in person this year. In Chicago.
Abortion rights and Starbucks.
A steelworker, a teacher, a dog and the Fourth of July.
The Court rules against the planet.
Escalating global tensions. I want peace for my grandchildren.
Biden fiddles while women die.
Republican and Democratic Party plans to privatize Medicare.
Biden picks opponent of Social Security to oversee Social Security.
Abortion rights and coup attempts.
Social Security disability fraud is like voter fraud. A right-wing fantasy.
Biden's Latin American summit was a dud. And now the Left wins in Colombia.
NEA wants retirees to solve the teacher exodus.
Failed coup attempts and now limiting voter access.
A decade later, what happened to the Illinois pension crisis?
Further adventures in privatizing Medicare through Medicare Advantage plans.
I'm turning 74. I'm still protesting war.
War and peace and its collateral damage.
Defeat the recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
The Right's cynical mental illness diversion.
Paul Vallas and the Chicago teachers pension fund.
Ms Ludkowski retired from teaching yesterday after 34 years. She's got a message she wants to share.
Biden is just terrible about Medicare.
Ted Cruz's "killer door theory" debunked. It was a gun and a gunman all along.
"Violence is American as apple pie."
Illinois teacher pension funds end up in the pockets of the January 6th insurrectionists.
There is no free market when it comes to baby formula. It's monopoly capitalism.
The NY Times on the war in Ukraine. Buyer's remorse.
I'm not taking the state's pension buyout, and this is why.
Old and young living in poverty. Two sides to the same coin.
Payton Gendron is on the ballot.
The ghost of Joe McCarthy. The attack on free speech.
Mary Donnelly has died and she left behind a life worth living.
Shireen Abu Akleh, noted Palestinian journalist, shot in the head and killed by Israeli forces.
Two big local teacher elections.
The Supreme Court is an institution rooted in slavery see and still carries the brand.
Proxy wars and medicare privatization.
The bipartisan murder of Medicare.
Medicare Advantage plans overcharge, deny needed services. The impact of privatization.
Teacher salaries down, inflation up.
Decapitating Medicare. Moving towards 100% privatization.
Chicago's exoneration of those falsely convicted by police torture.
Our last day in NOLA. "Union, justice and confidence."
My first NEA Representative Assembly. A New Orleans memory.
Ukraine, Palestine and hypocrisy.
Why is David Mamet even treated as a serious person?
Military recruiting and student debt relief.
Home is the place I want to be.
The present system is not sustainable.
Covid care in America on a Friday night.
In New York with United for Change. One teacher's story.
School privatizers go bonkers over Biden's charter school rules.
Is the Great Resignation really more about anti-immigration and the border wall?
Mom used to say, "Give me a boss I can hate."
Congress sleeps. I still have Covid.
Oscar should be in the shape of Scabby the Rat.
Today, only two months into 2022, millionaires stop paying their Social Security tax.
Congressman Mike Quigley. Chicago doesn't need a war hawk for mayor.
Chicago style. Not exactly the poster woman for ethics reform.
Madigan killed the pension issue.
Undocumented, elderly and Rahm Emanuel.
Russia and Ukraine resumed peace talks on Monday. But the numbers of dead keep growing.
Teachers strike in Riverdale. A story of racism and school funding.
In this time of war, where are the calls for peace?
Divesting pension investments in Russia you didn't know you had.
The history of imperialism and war diminishes our moral standing to oppose Russian aggression.
Privatizing Medicare. Changing the name won't make it any better.
The privatization scheme threatening Medicare: "Direct Contracting Entities (DCE)"
Race and class and retirement savings.
Tell me it's racism without saying race.
Who is Richard Goldberg and why does he have anything to say about my teacher pension?
Bob Lyons. “The IEA and the IFT are not with us because they are not on the same side.”
IEA about retiree health care funding cuts: Don't worry. Be happy.
Who is Richard Goldberg and why is he messing with my teacher pension?
Puerto Rico's teachers take to the streets protesting continuing austerity.
Remember George Carlin's seven dirty words? Education's new dirty word is racism.
Pritzker's budget and the public pension debt.
Moving NYC teachers to Medicare Advantage is scaring the crap out of folks.
Pritzker cuts state subsidy to retired teacher healthcare.
Arne Duncan wants to be the mayor of Chicago?
Illinois and New York. Retiree healthcare under assault. Teacher union leaders complicit.
An unconstitutional diminishment of teacher healthcare payments in Illinois.
Retired teachers sue state of Illinois for diminished retirement healthcare benefits.
The government's quiet plan to privatize basic Medicare.
The misuse of union PAC money.
Voting rights and Dr. King. “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Our leaders seem confused. Are we a union or a call center?
I don't like the feeling of remote.
It's crazy in Florida. A million tests go to waste.
Hidden history. Black journalists. The two Wilmingtons.