Spare me the sob story. The same "real people", including "old people" pay the PERS benefits.

The standard benchmark of pensions is the percent of final salary after 30 years of service. 

If you want to post data for 22 years of service, then show the equivalent.

The fact of the matter is that a lot of Tier 1 money was stolen; the benefits are extreme by any comparison or need and "real people" in Oregon are suffering because of the abuse that resulted in the Tier 1 (and Tier 2 to a lesser degree) obligations on future generations of workers and tax payers.

There's no excuse, other than they got away with it for too many years.

-- Paul