[BenLurkin]

a working-class city of 240,000

Only if by "working class", they mean a city in which around 1/3 of the population is on the dole.

[barefoot_hiker]

Something has to give. You can’t have legions of government workers retiring at 50 with these huge pensions and medical benefits. This problem has been discussed for decades (I recall hearing about it on talk radio when I moved to CA in 1996), but very little has been done about it, maybe a few minor reforms here and there.

[headsonpikes]

Replace the fat pensions with public horse-whippings.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Another Detroit in the making.

Any FReepers live or have lived in SB? What’s your opinion of the place?

[11th_VA]

Q:" So how many people work for the San Bernadino Government?"

A:"About half ..."

[MrEdd]

All of America will take a knife to government pensions because we have known since the nineteen seventies that it would cost too much to set back enough money to cover all those pensions and we quit even trying.

Now the pensions are coming to fruition and the money is not going to suddenly appear.

[Procyon]

San Bernardino, a workingwelfare-class city

[1010RD]

This is the biggest national story and one that will change the nation faster than DC conservatives can. Once a municipality knows it can bc and say goodbye to all that pension debt - look out.

Those that don’t will carry a big stick against public unions. The market wins again.