new school year

In September 2011 we will all be facing a new school year.  What kind of school year will it be?  Will our classes be crowded?  Will we be minus a few of our friends?  Will our pay checks have shrunk?  No one has paid into our pension for about 16 years.  People keep talking to me about how much our pension is costing the tax payers, yet since Governor Whitman, no one has paid into our pension but us.  We are taking care of our pension fund despite failed promises to help fund it.

     Next school year we may have to take a $6-8,000 pay cut if we have to pay 30% of our healthcare premium and the pension is increased.  Can you afford a pay cut that is that deep?  Of course our critics will say that it isn't a pay cut because our gross income won't change.  Anyone who can do math can tell that an increase in payments from our salary is a decrease in income.