@slotplayer 187627 wrote:
the government should just take over the 14 billion in pension payments a year and be done with it. remove that liability and let them sink or swim.
Yea, it’s sad to think that folks believed in life-time benefits. Unfortunately, there are many others in that position. I don’t see why they can’t give it out of the $700 bn, but I guess the only folks that matter to Paulson/Bush are the Banking personnel and their families.
Maybe that universal health care idea will become reality if millions more are out of work with no medical insurance.
The fate of the Big 3 being put on hold also has to do with the way AIG went about wasting a lot of the money we bailed them out with. I hope the next time the CEO’s come to Washington they atleast Jet-Pool or something so that they can seem to know how to play the begging game. :sarcasm: