To the uninformed spouter from Seaville: Each public employee contributes a portion of their salary to a pension system, which is administered by a pension board. Each employer, in this case the public, contributes as well. This money is invested by the pension board in order to grow the pension fund. It is the politicians who stole money from the pension system in order to keep the property taxes lower, and never paid any of that money back. So, don't blame the public employees for the pension mess, because they contributed, even when the employers did not.