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Related: About this forumAssembly Bill 269 To Move Public Pensions Into The Stock Market; The Agenda of Gov Walker and ALEC.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/08/1419275/-Wisconsin-GOP-wants-to-bankrupt-schools-local-govt-and-blame-pensions?detail=emailsnip
This Wisconsin bill goes along with model legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), whose ultimate goal is to stop public employees from getting pensions, and to have them put their future fates in with the stock market.
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Guaranteed pensions being attacked in every state with some GOP controlled state legislatures having already turned over pensions to investors/hedge fund managers.
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Assembly Bill 269 To Move Public Pensions Into The Stock Market; The Agenda of Gov Walker and ALEC. (Original Post)
DhhD
Sep 2015
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Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)1. In the "Governance by Ambush" theme used by Wisconsin republicans
I present the "crisis claymore mine". Place carefully and eviscerate you target(s) at your leisure; while remaining out of sight.
CatholicEdHead
(9,740 posts)2. Just a test case for Social Security to go into the Stock Market
If they cannot do it nationally yet, they will try it at the state level first.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)3. Adding: Looting of Pension Funds all over America.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/05/05/leaked-documents-show-how-blackstone-fleeces-taxpayers-via-public-pension-funds/
And the very famous:
http://ourfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Plot-Against-Pensions-final.pdf
the Pew-Arnold Campaign was stopped in Texas but for how long? RW voters are so stupid as to vote for politicians that allow and promote this.
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/05/05/leaked-documents-show-how-blackstone-fleeces-taxpayers-via-public-pension-funds/
And the very famous:
http://ourfuture.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Plot-Against-Pensions-final.pdf
the Pew-Arnold Campaign was stopped in Texas but for how long? RW voters are so stupid as to vote for politicians that allow and promote this.