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Re:Detroit files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy amid staggering de... by wpietri on Thursday July 18, 2013 @06:44PM (#6067049)
Oh, please. These pensions are impossible now, but that's because of decades of underinvestment and out-of-control health care costs.

Also, the workers didn't promise themselves anything. They made a deal with their employers. The employers didn't have to agree to anything. They did, and those deals should be honored.

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Re:Detroit files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy amid staggering de... by anonymoushn on Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:16PM (#6067204)
There's little to no adversarial aspect in a negotiation between government employees over the size of government employee pensions.
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Re:Detroit files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy amid staggering de... by penguindev on Thursday July 18, 2013 @09:23PM (#6067760)
Yep, especially when the unborn who are footing the generational robbery don't vote.
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Re:Detroit files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy amid staggering de... by wpietri on Friday July 19, 2013 @11:03PM (#6074183)
Do you have any evidence for that?

The employees getting the pensions are not the same ones doing the negotiating. By your theory, government employees would always get what they wanted and therefore never strike, but that's demonstrably not the ase.

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