Please, no sunlight on PERS trough
Heaven forbid that the taxpayers should continue to see who's collecting what out of the state's public employee pension system. Let's cover a bunch of that up.
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Comments (9)
Wasn't PERS at the center of some big scandal back in the 80's or 90's?
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | January 23, 2012 3:20 PM
And, judges, who are also PERS participants, will go along with that no problemo.
Posted by boycat | January 23, 2012 4:20 PM
Don't allow the curtain to go back down over PERS revelations cuz I want to know what Chip Kelley's gonna get.
Posted by cros | January 23, 2012 4:40 PM
Wasn't PERS at the center of some big scandal back in the 80's or 90's?
PERS is a scandal now. Just nobody who can do anything about it cares because they are in the system.
Posted by Jon | January 23, 2012 5:05 PM
PERS is a scandal now. Just nobody who can do anything about it cares because they are in the system.
Isn't that pretty much the political state of affairs in general around here? It would explain a lot.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | January 23, 2012 6:20 PM
The Oregonian has been pushing this which is at least one thing in their favor.
I wish they would dig into it a little more and start to publish some of the silly rules used to calculate the pensions. Basically what happened was that PERS people created a system that was stacked in their favor and it appears that nobody in the state is going to do anything about it. Not really a surprise seeing how inbred the politicians in the state are.
Posted by Andy | January 23, 2012 6:29 PM
They don't want sunlight anywhere. Neil's threatening legal action if the Clackastani Rebellion succeeds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck_u6ldJvlw&feature=youtu.be
Break out the popcorn!
Posted by Max | January 23, 2012 6:52 PM
"it appears that nobody in the state is going to do anything about it."
Old PERS plans may be ridiculously generous, but what exactly do you propose they do about them that is legal?
PERS was reformed in the early 2000's. Is the current plan OPSRP/IAP still too much? If so, please explain why? What part of current PERS plans is out of whack from most other decent retirement plans?
Posted by brian002 | January 23, 2012 8:36 PM
The size of the PERS payout doesn't offend me as much as the concept of drawing a retirement paycheck before retirement age.
Posted by David E Gilmore | January 24, 2012 11:43 AM