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WinkyDink

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5. My mother, a Bethlehem Steel widow, is fully aware of this. PBGC was her rip-off company. My

Reply to liberal N proud (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2013, 01:53 PM

Dec 2013

pension, as is my husband's, is a state one funded by teachers' contributions as well as public funding. And it's a HUGE CONTROVERSY IN PA, now that we have a corrupt Republican greed-head Governor who would sell off the entire state if he could.

http://www.pbgc.gov/

If this law is upheld, and teachers, police, civil employees, all lose their pensions, there WILL be a revolution. Public education will end. Period. NOBODY would enter the profession with zero pension to look forward to!!

But then, evil men DO want to end public education. Even government.

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