It's Five O'Clock Somewhere

Especially if you live in Sun City, AZ, are former Oregon teachers and relatively recent PERS retirees, and pose for an Oregonian photographer as PERS poster children. One can only ask: "what were they thinking?" when they agreed to have their picture taken for a Sunday feature article (front page) about problems with funding for public education in Oregon. Worse still, they openly admitted that they retired because they feared benefits would be reduced and wouldn't have retired if the system had remained unchanged. Given that, why on earth would they want to advertise this fact to, of all newspapers, the Oregonian? One can only assume they were utterly naive, completely misled about the nature of the story, or were simply thumbing their noses at the people of Oregon. Whatever their motives, they surely helped the Oregonian and all the anti-tax advocates continue their drumbeat against public employees. Perhaps the followup story will show us their family frolics in the Caribbean, where it's 5 O'clock always.