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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (741793)

9/25/2013 3:33:23 PM

From: SilentZ

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Z, your question is stupid because it assumes there is a free lunch, namely pensions without "funding issues." Yeah? Pensions are deferred compensation. They don't come out of nowhere. Salaries are negotiated lower so there's money around later for retirement. There's math to it. If the right amount of money is set aside along the way. If companies set aside the right amount of money and then don't dip into it to pay for other things and don't put it into risky investments, there's no reason they can't work. Of course, a ton of both of those things can happen. If companies who gave pensions had rules to follow to make them function properly, that would benefit millions of people. Why not have them? -Z