Kasz216 said:
Can I prove what? Meanwhile... yes. Companies that do offer pension plans totally are fucking over their pensioners. When an employee retires his retirement plan should be prefunded and set in stone. If the company goes belly up tommorrow you should get your full benefits. You are retired, you fufilled your end of the bargin.
Either way, this more or less explains the problem at the moment with the post office.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-02/understanding-the-post-office-s-benefits-mess.html
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Yeah, but it's fully funded for a ridiculous length of time based on employees who may not ever retire or reach pension. It's not even based on how many workers they have...it's just a flat 5.5B every year for 75 years. It's outrageous. And even then, you have to factor in inflation, so the money you prepay today is worth vastly more than the same amount 40 years down the line....even MA-rep R Scott Brown calls it unfair and irresponsible to have them paying this much.
Or am I misinformed about this? Your link seems to suggest that "Going forward, the Postal Service should be expected to cover the normal cost of retiree health care, paying a little bit more than it is right now, but far less than what Congress has obligated it to pay"