State Lawmakers Will Take …
… another crack at reforming Pennsylvania’s rickety public pensions system, the PAIndependent reports this morning. That’ll happen next week at a joint hearing of the House Finance and State Government Committees, the online news org reports.For those of you playing along at home, Pennsylvania faces a pension liability of as much as $4 billion in the next few years. And Republican lawmakers are looking to change retirement benefits so they more closely resemble those of private-sector workers.
You mean, make them more erratic and subject to whether the new owners pay them or file for bankruptcy? You mean, like that?
The Republican Party’s goal is to privatize everything. Including the military.
You mean, make them more erratic and subject to whether the new owners pay them or file for bankruptcy? You mean, like that?
You got it, kiddo.
Under Our Corporate Masters, America really has become Bizarro World. Two systems of benefits, one obviously better than the other. Instead of improving the crappy one, make the good one crappy. Race to the bottom indeed.