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riversedge

(70,239 posts)
Sat Aug 15, 2015, 01:38 PM Aug 2015

So why is Walker/legislature looking to 'reform' board that oversees the best run public pension sys




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So why is Walker/legislature looking to 'reform' board that oversees the best run public pension system in the US?


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Wisconsin is only state with a fully funded pension system, @ScottWalker says http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2015/aug/14/scott-walker/wisconsin-only-state-fully-funded-pension-system-s/ … via @PolitiFactWisc @KertscherNews


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So why is Walker/legislature looking to 'reform' board that oversees the best run public pension sys (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2015 OP
He has got to be trying to sink this state. That has to be his agenda. Ed Suspicious Aug 2015 #1
Preparing to loot (eom) Moliere Aug 2015 #2
Bingo! sybylla Aug 2015 #3
Yatzeee! ewagner Aug 2015 #4
Makes me sick to see Walker hovering over the pension fund HelenWheels Aug 2015 #5
mine also, and d*mn it, they better keep their grubby hands off of my retirement. a kennedy Aug 2015 #8
Easy peasy - so his masters can pillage it. Scuba Aug 2015 #6
Because they cannot STAND to see a big pot of money that is not theirs. Still In Wisconsin Aug 2015 #7

ewagner

(18,964 posts)
4. Yatzeee!
Sat Aug 15, 2015, 06:14 PM
Aug 2015

Sybylla already said BINGO

Privatize it....turn it over to wall street...loot it

turn the fund over to defined CONTRIBUTION as opposed to defined BENEFIT.

HelenWheels

(2,284 posts)
5. Makes me sick to see Walker hovering over the pension fund
Sun Aug 16, 2015, 11:49 AM
Aug 2015

This fund provides half of my monthly income. Walker is drooling over the prospect of handing the fund to his buddies. That would be very frightening for state retirees like me.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
7. Because they cannot STAND to see a big pot of money that is not theirs.
Sun Aug 16, 2015, 08:53 PM
Aug 2015

They simply MUST have that pension money. They MUST I tell you!

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