The breaking point…You will be forced to separate whether you like it or not!

Greetings,

  Now the judgment has intensified. Those of you who worked for the state or who retired from your jobs and were either middle to upper class, once thought that you were set. You thought that you were immuned to poverty. Now you are finding out differently.

   All of your hard labor and contractual agreements are being thrown in the mud of economic turmoil. No one is being spared. It is hitting the rich as well as the middle class. Allah is showing you his power by taking that which you once felt secure in.

   …”You do not like doing right. You do not like doing something for self. You glorify begging the white man to do for you that which you can do for yourself. I warn you that the day is not far distant when you will be forced to do something for yourself because the white man is bound to drop you. And that he knows, but he is not telling you. He is allowing you the chance to make a fool of yourself and be caught at that time like a grasshopper who enjoyed summer weather. But cold weather kills the grasshopper. It freezes him to death because he has no house to lodge in.”–pg.137(o.s.h.a.)

   Illinois legislature approves retiree benefit cut

“This landmark legislation is a bipartisan solution that squarely addresses the most difficult fiscal issue Illinois has ever confronted,” Governor Pat Quinn said in a statement after the vote. He is expected to sign the legislation on Wednesday.

“This is no victory for Illinois, but a dark day for its citizens and public servants,” We Are One Illinois, a coalition of labor unions, said in a statement.

The battle now turns to the courts, where union leaders have promised to take the legislation. Some opponents have asserted that it violates the State Constitution by illegally lowering pension benefits.

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst-financed state employee pension systems, with some $100 billion in overdue debt.

The Midwestern state has been the focus of intense attention across the US as states and municipalities struggle to come to grips with their own public pension problems.