RHJones re: Hey, Ann, what is ORTA doing to protect actives' futures and our pension fund solvency re. SB 5

From RH Jones, April 21, 2011

John, Ann and all:

While tsunamis, earthquakes and tornadoes of legislation sponsored by the ultra far-right Republicans, who are out to destroy our OH STRS pension & our very modest "benefits", ORTA, indeed, is only spending our dues money on trips around the nation and state talking to one another. When the ORTA officials dine on our dime, they sure are not talking for us, in the legislature or at our STRS. They only tell those at the luncheons that which STRS has already said in STRS bulletins.

Over the years many of us have tried to change them for the good of our livelihood, but we have been soundly ridiculed, ignored, and angrily dismissed with dirty looks. I have come to believe, as CORE's Tom Curtis, already has, that there is no way to set them straight; and this has been a terrible cost in our many STRS take-aways. They sit by in silent agreement with the cuts telling us that they are necessary when, at the same time recent retirees were awarded a STRS-busting 88+%-35-yr retirement deal.

RHJones, a sad & ignored Life Member of ORTA