AdamT
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Adam. Really? This article does not say that Gov. Walker has asked that his staff be exempt. Please try to be fair. What it says is that he isn't going to ask the few of his staff members involved to give up their pensions. The point is, it's legal now. Going forward, Walker is working at making it illegal. No one will give up their pension until and unless the law changes. That'd just be stupid.
Why can't we ever be honest and fair?
I'm not sure what you were reading, but the link I posted clearly states that Walker would not ask his staffers to give up their pensions while still collecting paychecks from the state:
In the past five and a half years, at least 6,829 state and local government employees covered by the Wisconsin Retirement System left then returned to work, simultaneously earning a pension and a salary.
Those include two of Gov. Scott Walker's cabinet secretaries: Corrections Secretary Gary Hamblin and Children and Families Secretary Eloise Anderson, both earning six-figure salaries along with their public pensions.
Stephen Fitzgerald, superintendent of the Wisconsin State Patrol, whose sons, Scott and Jeff, run the Senate and Assembly, respectively, also is back on the payroll while continuing to collect a state pension.
On Friday, Walker said he supports a bill that would end double dipping. But the Republican governor has no plans to ask his appointees to stop taking their pensions, spokesman Cullen Werwie said.
"They weren't rehired into a position they had been in before," Werwie said. "These were people who had been collecting their annuities long in advance of their service to Gov. Walker, in totally different jobs."
Yes, he does offer a justification, but can you not see that exception swallowing the rule in the blink of an eye? If they change the law to prevent double dipping, but make an exception for people hire into a different position, you will very quickly see former "teachers" being hired back as "class room administraters" or some such bullsh*t. And what is the reason for the exception? If you work for the state you work for the state and you should not be pulling a pension.
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