He calls your pension a “rotting, stinking carcass”
People at the California Public Policy Center calls your pension a rotting, sticking carcass.
Ed Ring, executive director of the California Public Policy Center asks if pensions for law enforcement, teachers, firefighters, librarians and others who work for our local governments are like “a rotting, stinking carcass, sprayed with public relations perfume and papered over with pretty ideological colors?” Another question from the refined pen of Ed Ring: “Are they healthy financial contributors to America’s prosperity, victims of unwarranted attacks from “right-wing” ideologues, or are they an oppressive, inequitable, gargantuan, putrescent bubble that shall someday pop, pouring a reeking stench across the economic landscape of this nation?”
Wow! That is pretty heated-up rhetoric. Not sure what respectable publication would even print that. I think most cops and teachers would agree that their pensions are NOT a “rotting, stinking carcass, sprayed with public relations perfume.”
If you see articles like this in your local newspaper or on television, send in a rebuttal. If it’s on television, volunteer to go in and do one in front of the camera.
Meanwhile a few Google searches reveals that the California Public Policy Center, is a conservative nonprofit led by Ed Ring, who worked to promote the anti-union Proposition 32 last year. No doubt they receive funding from the Koch Brothers. CPPC’s advisors include Marcia Fritz and Jack Dean; its president is Mark W. Bucher who helped qualify and pass 2000’s Proposition 22, which effectively banned same-sex marriage in California. Bucher is also a board member of Family Action, a rightwing Orange County political action committee. Another CPPC board member, Robert Loewen, also serves as president of the ultraconservative Lincoln Club of Orange County.
If you can stomach it, read more of Ed Ring’s clarion call to destroy your pension.
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