>..so was the top carmaker entering bankruptcy with all of those employees and pensions on their books. Biggest bankruptcy of that sort since the depression. Precedent isn't a suicide pact, when things get weird then people can adapt.

The example I quoted was about Chrysler. The actual largest bankruptcy was Lehman Brothers not Chrysler (or GM) The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy was about 15 times larger larger than Chrysler.

If the government wanted to save the pension, then the government should have increased the bailout to pay for it. This would have been better than breaking the rule of law just because the non-secured creditors have more political pull.