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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 09:30 AM Original message |
We need universal pension reform!!! |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
1. re: GM, it's about busting unions. AIG still got their bonuses because it was in THEIR contracts |
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MercutioATC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
2. SS is a safety net, NOT a retirement plan. |
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billyoc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
3. My Union runs my pension fund, and it's doing fine. |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
4. Do away with the FICA tax cap and we could fully fund SSI |
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IrishBuckeye (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 09:42 AM Response to Original message |
5. PBGC is already over $11 billion in the hole, a GM bankrupcey will cost it over $6 billion a year |
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kirby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 10:01 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Did you read this from yesterdays paper? |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 11:01 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. My annual report from the PBGC said they are |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 10:43 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. That's not the way it works at all. If a company goes bankrupt |
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kirby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 11:11 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. PBGC does not make one whole... |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. That scares the hell out of me I will be depending on the |
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whosinpower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
6. Two things |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
8. Look at all the interest my thread on pensions generated. |
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kirby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 10:13 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Probably for two reasons... |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
11. Big Surprise here - Companies Tap Pension Plans to Fund Exec Benefits |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
12. When cannibal capitalism was "chosen" for us, the die was cast.. |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-31-09 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
14. There should be an energy tax to fund pensions. That way the rich pay more. |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-01-09 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
17. kick! |
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