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I'm trying to figure out how all these obligations get paid. The projected numbers, not only for Illinois, but for other states, counties, cities, even the fed, don't work long term. Something is going to have to give, and I'm really curious what happens in the end. San Bernadino I think it is, just halted it's pension payments. It's flat broke and can't make them. What gives? Something has to.
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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." Leo Tolstoy, 1897
I'm trying to figure out how all these obligations get paid. The projected numbers, not only for Illinois, but for other states, counties, cities, even the fed, don't work long term. Something is going to have to give, and I'm really curious what happens in the end. San Bernadino I think it is, just halted it's pension payments. It's flat broke and can't make them. What gives? Something has to.
Easy...immediately cap the highest pension allowable at $100k/year.
No public employee deserves a pension above that level.
One thing we can ALL agree upon is that taxpayers will not be willing to bail them out.
Tough sheeit.
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Do you think the unions would agree to cap existing pensions? I don't. With people living much longer now, and overall costs outside of pensions continuously rising, existing pensions will have to be dealt with in some way. I'm curious to see how it all plays out.
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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him." Leo Tolstoy, 1897
Do you think the unions would agree to cap existing pensions? I don't. With people living much longer now, and overall costs outside of pensions continuously rising, existing pensions will have to be dealt with in some way. I'm curious to see how it all plays out.
It doesn't matter what the unions think, any state can cap pensions retro-actively with an amendment.
I'm not "curious" but more "conerned" about how this plays out. We need to protect taxpayers more than public sector retirees. In retrospect, we all know now just how foolish the deals made by our politicians with public sector unions were, don't we?
Keep in mind that these pensions ASSUMED an average 8% return on investments! That in itself tells what dopes these people are!
It doesn't matter what the unions think, any state can cap pensions retro-actively with an amendment.
I'm not "curious" but more "conerned" about how this plays out. We need to protect taxpayers more than public sector retirees. In retrospect, we all know now just how foolish the deals made by our politicians with public sector unions were, don't we?
Keep in mind that these pensions ASSUMED an average 8% return on investments! That in itself tells what dopes these people are!
Politicians traded the future of their states and cities for votes.
It doesn't matter what the unions think, any state can cap pensions retro-actively with an amendment.
I'm not "curious" but more "conerned" about how this plays out. We need to protect taxpayers more than public sector retirees. In retrospect, we all know now just how foolish the deals made by our politicians with public sector unions were, don't we?
Keep in mind that these pensions ASSUMED an average 8% return on investments! That in itself tells what dopes these people are!
Hey, I agree with you. I'm "curious" (as well as concerned of course) because I want to see how it all plays out from a legal perspective. Some people spout that "promises were made" and such. I'm "curious" to see how the law, and reality, play out here. If the courts determine that any and all promised obligations must be met to the letter by which they were written for example, what's next? Either massive service cuts, massive tax increases, or both will ensue. Both of which will likely drive citizens to move elsewhere, which could end up with a collapse of said city or county. Then what? This is where my curiousity rests. Does reality set in, where agreements are made, or are lines drawn in the sand. The bottom line is that some of us know that the obligations simply can't be paid as currently constituted. The numbers just don't work.
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yet another thread the fab 5 are steering clear of
IC ... you really need to stop ... comments like this do not help at all. It's their business what they respond to and what they don't. When you choose to call people out ... which is against the spirit of what Ian wants then you forfeit your right to post in the thread.
IC ... you really need to stop ... comments like this do not help at all. It's their business what they respond to and what they don't. When you choose to call people out ... which is against the spirit of what Ian wants then you forfeit your right to post in the thread.
Ok, I'll make his point in more "friendly" manner.
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Illinois is in BAD Shape...but why?
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