- They argue ... [garbled] ...our children are a front to line their pockets, gold plated pensions for the Chicago Police, multimillion dollar pension payouts. They are using, again, that the children as an excuse?
We aren't certain if she's even speaking English. We had a hard time transcribing even that little bit. The linked video doesn't have the subtitles that appeared on the news broadcast, but we believe she was identified as [unknown first name] Tobin?
That name rang a bell, so we Googled "Tobin and pensions" and found we weren't having foggy memories at all. Someone named Jim Tobin runs the "TaxpayersUnitedofAmerica.org" website that uses the pensions of Phil Cline, Dana Starks, Terry Hillard and other gold stars to paint all cops as bankrupting the system.
Seeing as how our average pension is $48,900, we contribute upwards of 10% to our own retirement, we get zero Social Security (thanks Rosty) and we'll have to pay all of our own retired healthcare after this year, we don't know where this ass gets off describing our pensions as "whopping" by any stretch of the imagination.