WALKER: Don't worry, I'm not planning to change state pensions, because that would be against

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against current law.

Wisconsin state government is sending out emails to public employees reassuring them that Gov. Scott Walker isn't planning to scale back, transform or gut the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS), widely regarded as the best funded and best run pension program in the nation.
Why was it necessary for the Walker administration to do this? Because public employees for good reason do not trust Walker. And because Walker sees this latest uprising as another threat to his governorship.
Walker sent an email to his cabinet secretaries, some of whom in turn this week wrote to their staffs in an attempt to damp down growing concerns and rumors regarding the state's plans for the WRS. In his original email, which some of the cabinet secretaries simply repeated verbatim, Walker said he's just taking a close look at the pension system to "support" it with new research.
Never mind that this kind of research already exists, outside the political realm of partisan policymakers. The move by Walker is very troubling, because state lawmakers have never before presumed to interfere in the way the retirement system's professional actuaries run the show.

http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/walker-dont-worry-im-not-planning-change-law-because-would-be-ag#comment-450505800

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1. Uh huh. So his plan is to change the law?

Like he did with collective bargaining?

WALKER: UNSAFE NEAR LEGISLATIVE PROCESS.

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2. I never thought he would bother to change the law.... But I suppose that is what he had to do

when he was county executive to pay for the deficit he created...