Posted on 07/22/2009 5:08:58 AM PDT by arichtaxpayer
WASHINGTONThe Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation today announced it will assume responsibility for the pension plans of 70,000 workers and retirees of Delphi Corp., the nations largest producer of automotive parts. The PBGC will initiate action to become trustee of the plans, a process that could last up to several months.
PBGC = Friends of Obama??
Didn’t the Car Czar make GM give this group a $2 billion loan during the bankruptcy to buy Delphi?
Bah. Those people shouldn’t expect what they were promised.
Democrat voting, union, highest paid, .....and now picked up by taxpayers like me that have none, zero.
Nobel economics winner James M. Buchanan proved that any government scheme will be captured and used to the detriment.
This is just another proof that large companies, their management, union workers and political friends are economic threats via taxation and government power to the rest of us.
GM, 50,000 ‘workers’, 1 million retires.
All of them, supposedly, adults. Always ready to make crappy cars, go on strike, shake down/extort customers via friends in Washington....and anybody should expect what?
Is this good for the pensioners?
He)) no. For the people already on social security, they will be OK. My husband is in his late 50’s. We will receive about $1,000 a month. Our healthcare (taken away in April) costs $1,000 a month. After 30+ years = $0.
I thought the PBGC would pay you on your pension fully, unless you had a very large pension coming? No? I remember reading about this when the airline pilots were facing this scenario. Some pilots stood to lose a significant amount, but their pensions were sky-high, no pun intended. Can you point out to me how the PBGC figures out how much to pay you, if they take over a pension fund? Is it a fixed percentage?
Well, doesn’t everyone have a pension guaranteed by the PBGC (i.e., the taxpayers)? .....ah, didn’t think so.
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