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man some dumb fucks in this thread and i am not even a republican, just i believe in free market enterprise.
if a company offers an individual person a retirement package, and if this benefit is a direct result of said companys future earnings, then that be it and not hang this cost on the future generations by taxes or otherwise. It is completely fair to tell retirees or other beneficiaries that due to poor fiscal performance, the pay out is less and not expect the rest of the countrys taxpayers to cough up the extra expenses to line the union mans pockets with gold. it happens all the time, look at Enron, look at all the airlines which went under (also due to the unions not giving enough concessions), all those pilots and flight attendants forfeited their pensions which usually (for pilots) is a few million $.
Now should the taxpayers go in and cover all those poor people who were unfortunate to work for such companies, I THINK NOT.
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