On CNBC Wednesday, Gov. Bob McDonnell made his pitch for taking another crack at changes to the Virginia Retirement System.
"We have a very rich and generous defined benefit program, and that's almost a dinosaur now in the public and private sector," he said when asked about the health of the state workers pension program.
The state doesn't "have enough people paying in at reasonable rates to fund the outflows from the people who are retiring now."
Changes, he said, are "a top priority for the next session," he said. "And I've already told the General Assembly it's coming."
The General Assembly this year required state employees to pay 5 percent into the Virginia Retirement System, and reimbursed them for the entire amount with 5 percent pay raises.
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