Post by 101ABN on Oct 30, 2011 20:49:15 GMT -8
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
We applaud Gov. Jerry Brown for his 12-point pension reform, but not too loudly. It features many obviously long-overdue fixes to the state's broken public workers' retirement system. But why have these blatantly obvious remedies taken so long?
We also wonder whether Mr. Brown, elected last year thanks to millions of dollars from public worker unions, may be going through the motions, aware these belated fixes could die in the Legislature, whose members also owe their jobs to union contributions. Is the governor superficially fulfilling a campaign promise, aware his union allies will strip his reforms of meaningful impact in deliberations?
www.ocregister.com/opinion/brown-324347-workers-pension.html