Study: California's Pension Gap Increased in 2010

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Study: California's Pension Gap Increased in 2010

According to a new Pew Center for the States study, California's public retirement systems' pension obligations totaled $112 billion beyond the value of their assets in 2010. Meanwhile, expected retiree health care costs added an additional $77 billion in unfunded liabilities.

"California's Pension Gap Widened in 2010, Research Center Says" (Ortiz, "The State Worker," Sacramento Bee, 6/20).

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06/22/2012
Tim Colling

Remember, the government that has unlimited power to tax has unlimited power to destroy.

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06/22/2012
Tim Colling

Clark - you clearly haven't yet been forced to drink the KoolAide. Until you do, you just won't understand the agenda here in the People's Republik of Kalifornia. Under that agenda, what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine, if I am a public sector employee.

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06/21/2012
Clark Norwood

When did the change take place that when you retire you get more than you actually saved when you were working. When did the moral view change that allowed workers to expect more than they were entitled to and to know in their own minds that it was ok to take the extra money from their neighbors and not be ashamed of themselves for doing it? The answer is when Public sector unions were allowed to exist and grow in power over the elected officials. Officials that are to serve the people that elected them and not the unions they get money from.