“If my company were to file bankruptcy and try to terminate or reduce my guaranteed pension, that would financially destroy me.”
And what makes you think that you are so special? I too had my retirement set up ( no pensions for me, I had to provide for my own retirement by my own means) and I was starting to draw on my investments in retirement. Life was good, and it was easy to see that we would have enough to see us to the end of our lives. Then 2007 came along and we watched 30% of what we had invested evaporate!. And at the same time saw earnings on what was left drop precipitously. So buddy, as far as I am concerned, if you loose your retirement, it’s just tough $h!t! If it happens, be a big boy and figure out how you are going to survive, that’s what we have had to do.
Ahhh, I got it now! You got screwed on your OWN personal investments, just as I DID, and now you have no problem with me or anyone else losing our company's CONTRACTUALLY GUARANTEED pension plan, the plan we worked 35 years for.
There's a big difference between our personal savings and investments, WHICH BOTH YOU AND I HAD, and one's company pension plan, which obviously YOU didn't have and and thus have no sympathy for someone who did.......
Evidently MISERY DOES like company bro, you're one sick dude...........
Do you feel the same way about Social Security? If the govt. can no longer make it's payments to us retirees, is your attitude still "screw you, suck it up"???????
LOL!