Awww, They shouldn’t worry.
Politicians of all stripes and levels have no doubt been closely watching the example of Prichard, Alabama. They officially ran out of money two years ago and stopped paying pensions. We have John Stossel’s latest to show that Prichard somehow still manages to pay everybody else.
The city’s retirees just suck it up, struggle on somehow, or suffer and die in silence with some desultory protesting.
So far the Mayor and town council have not been impeached, voted out of office or even assassinated.
Go figure, I’m sure, after due consideration, our solons are not so afraid of having a few elder mobs beating on their limos with placards for a while.
Especially considering Soros can get Kapos on the cheap from AARP.
And they shouldn't be, unless they were the very same individuals that conspired with public employees, and against taxpayers, by instituting unreasonable and possibly dirty pension arrangements.
The just solution would be to void these dirty pension deals, arrest the politicians and union heads that negotiated them, and allow them to escape long prison sentences only by forfeiting all financial and material assets they hold. These proceeds can go to partially compensate would-be pensioners that sadly believed the fairy tale they were told.