By State Rep. Thomas Albert, includes “Governor Whitmer’s recent state budget proposal raids the public-school pension fund to pay for other programs. This is a particularly shocking move by the governor because for decades Democrats have accused Republicans of using the pension system as a piggy bank … Whitmer instead plans to use money that should be going into the public-school employee retirement system for other purposes. To be fair, looking back, both parties share blame for our public-school retirement system being over $40 billion in debt. …”