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They have been blowing this smoke for years. What's so funny is that the people negotiating these contracts on behalf of the unions apparently don't read the newspaper, because if they did, they would know that as soon as the ink was dry on the new contract the government was going out to spend all of its money on limos and hookers and not put a dime in the pension fund. This is not a secret, right? I've read about 20 times over the past few years, in my spare time.

I'm wondering...what "collision course" are they talking about? Isn't the public work force composed...of taxpayers? The public work force is going to collide with...itself? Or other taxpayers? This is making my head hurt.

Finally, is this really a problem? Sometimes Hollywood gets it right. We'll get the old people together and push them into one of those machines that turns them into candy bars. Don't you remember that movie, "Soylent Green"? At the end he realizes they are feeding everyone with the candy bars made out of dead people? Charlton Heston? You remember.

The cities, counties and authorities of New York have promised more than $200 billion worth of health benefits to their retirees while setting aside almost nothing, putting the public work force on a collision course with the taxpayers who are expected to foot the bill.

[NY Times]