PERS was not earned, that is a bald face lie. This was extorted by threatening to shut down the government. Time and again the union held our schools/government hostage. It was so bad that by 1992 90% of the school budget was now going to wages and benefits...and what did we get for our money? more gross incompetence as OPS is now an international embarrassment.
 There is no cure for this social cancer that is harming our children's education, and is keeping our poor chained to poverty. Our children and the working poor are the ones the union is inflicting suffering on. Look how hard it is to cover just 20% of this debt.