[raybbr]

It’s not the working budgets that are the problem. It’s pension plans. CT has an absurd debt of almost $100 billion in unfunded liabilities due mostly to state worker pension plans.

[Fury]

It’s pension plans.

Good point. Defined benefit plans.

That and Other Post Employment Benefits (OPEB). Things like retiree health care.

[RasterMaster]

"It’s pension plans. CT has an absurd debt of almost $100 billion in unfunded liabilities due mostly to state worker pension plans."

Let them watch their retirements evaporate the way most of those who worked for 30+ years did. Let them experience BEGGING for the decent health care that their tenure promised. Let them experience their retirement plans evaporate. Let them feel the BERN that they voted for year after year!

[Jacquerie]

Michigan and Illinois are similarly burdened. The rest of government could shut down and exist only to fund pensions.