[TurboZamboni]

Detroit pension officials handed out about $1 billion in bonuses from the city’s two pension funds to retirees and active city workers from 1985 to 2008. That money — mostly in the form of so-called 13th checks — could have shored up the funds and possibly prevented the city from filing for bankruptcy. If that money had been saved, it would have been worth more than $1.9 billion today to the city and pension funds, by one expert’s estimate.

So this is nothing new for failure-inducing chuckleheads.

[From The Deer Stand]

And, don’t forget, the original administrator of the program took a vacation as the system was rolled out and was crumbling. More proof government can’t efficiently handle a program, and Obamacare, MNSure, etc. are proving it more every day.

[informavoracious]

They probably got a bonus for delivering it “on time.” It didn’t work, but they met their date.

[DManA]

Dayton took “responsibility” for the debacle. So get your check book out Marky.