[ROTB]

“Kim Hoffman, a middle school music teacher, said she and her husband, also a teacher, would lose $1,200 a month under the plan — too deep a cut to manage.”

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1) rent
2) eat beans and rice
3) drive a beater car
4) stop eating out
5) ... you understand

[Mr Ramsbotham]

My math skills are pretty rusty, but here's how I look at Kim's plight:

.07X = 1,200
X=1,200/.07
X=17,143

So Kim is just skinning it on $17,143 per month (not counting any income her husband might bring in), but she absolutely can't make it on $15,943 per month.

These dingelheimers will get absolutely no sympathy from the public at large, the majority of whom already distrust unions and want no part of them. The time is ripe for busting them up.