How a forgotten 1999 law caused California's unfunded pension liabilities to grow to $241 *billion* http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-davis-deal/ …
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@latimes given a state GDP OF 2.4 TRILLION, this is a modest shortfall. A Shortfall mostly caused by banking fraud/2008 crash.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
pr campaign suggesting puplic sector pensions are a PROBLEM is part of Koch brothers funded narrative.
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no I'm not suggesting that public sector pensions are inherently a problem. I'm suggesting this law was dumb.
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it may or may not have been good policy. But having huge sector of CA retiries not subject to wims of market is good.
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because the situation now is that we will have to shortchange current services to pay this all back.
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