http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/08/peer-recommends-changes-to-pers-administration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=peer-recommends-changes-to-pers-administration Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/01/08/peer-recommends-changes-to-pers-administration/#comment-140837 Brenda Edwards Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:08:48 +0000 http://msbusiness.com/?p=67859#comment-140837 Please leave PERS alone. The PEER report indicates that it is healthy and will be for a long time to come. This is probably because those on the board are members of PERS and have its best interest at heart. Who better than a person who cares about the organization should help in its business. If the governor and leiutenant governor appoints two members to the board, that leaves only one of our kind in a position of leadership on the board that at present cares about the system.
The legislature, the governor, nor the lieutenant governor cares one fig about the people for which PERS was set up. They see only a source of money that they can take over and spend where they want to. Does that mean that the former teachers of this state will be going on Welfare, ebt cards, and Medicaid? Think about how you will take care of them. Right now PERS is doing that. If it is taken over as the proposal suggests, our money will be down a rabbit hold; we will have nothing except social security, and they will be scurrying around trying to find a way for this large number of people to survive.
Tell them to leave it be. It is not broken. As the saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” We do not need a freeze on our COLA either.

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