Ideology is a powerful factor in the way people see things — or don’t see things, either intentionally or because they just can’t. So, when Bruce Bartlett recently wrote about the risks of retiring without a decent pension, it was both comical and bizarre that he chose to ignore the main reason for the destruction of a comfortable retirement.
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Batter Up: Greed Is Good
Posted on 19 March 2013.
I’ve always chuckled a bit at the annual baseball debate over the rich teams versus the “poor” teams. Face it: it’s not your family business anymore. It’s big business running these teams. And, lo and behold, the vise of greed is tightening around the national past time.
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The Collapse of Defined Benefit Pensions
Posted on 18 October 2007.
We just had an amazing panel here on the crisis in retirement security (if you missed it…you had your chance…make sure you get to our future events!). Bruce Raynor, general president of UNITE-HERE, gave some very clear examples of how defined benefit pensions are crucial to his members’ retirement, pointing out that pensions bind […]
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