Mach
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Welcome to reality. The saddest part is that any contract made by government has the taxpayer, indefinitely, on the hook for it. In stark contrast to the rest of us schlubs in the private market who have no taxpayers and state entity on the hook, we have to make smart decisions in the wild west of private industry...that place that funds the existence of the public space in the first place. Private industry goes down, they are **** out of luck. Being on the hook for union/public pensions, while our own are subject to market forces without such security, that's entirely unfair to the taxpayers who were not in control of the negotiation in the first place. It's also unfair because the taxpayers are subsidizing what the public workers benefit form in terms of better pension return points (at least 1-2% better than similar private), the less likelihood of bankruptcy (oops!). Unions, but especially public unions, are a blight for that and many other obvious reasons. And I can assure you, I have never promised to fund Detroit's public pensions.So in your value system breaking your contractual promises is simply something done because your extremist beliefs let you do it.