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Biden releasing nearly $36 billion to aid pensions of union workers
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Posted on 12/08/2022 7:55:26 AM PST by chuckee

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To: chuckee

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61 posted on 12/08/2022 10:12:27 AM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: gitmo
In 2008, my employer sponsored 401k was all in company stock. It's a DoD contractor, so Obama's arrival tanked the value of the stock. The company transferred 401k management to Vanguard and they did a decent job of recovering...until Biden arrived. My company stock is looking OK today, but the values weighed against inflation are a net wash in purchasing power.
62 posted on 12/08/2022 10:19:28 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: chuckee

The 2024 election cycle has officially begun...

Griner released...
Unions bailed out...

Americans can stand proud...
What a fabulous country...


63 posted on 12/08/2022 10:25:28 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: Alberta's Child
There are almost 400,000 retirees in this pension fund. The local affiliates that support it probably have fewer than 200,000 working members.

Us regular stiffs need to fund our IRAs or 401(k)s as we go.

Huge unfunded liabilities relate to management strategies, and shouldn't be dependent on optimistic projected demographics. Those are the elements of a Ponzi scheme. Why should I have to bail them out?

64 posted on 12/08/2022 10:27:02 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: Orosius

Was my thoughts. That whole “no strings or requirements attached” fine language is the gift that keeps on giving.


65 posted on 12/08/2022 10:30:36 AM PST by It Aint Easy
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To: newzjunkey

True.Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp covers non union single employer private defined benefit plans and separately, multi employer defined benefit plans which are the union pension plans. The covid relief act snuck in a provision that taxpayer funds could be used by Biden from covid relief to fund the underfunded multiemployer union plans but not the single employer non union plans. They knew the unions had underfunded the plans and used the covid bill taxpayer funds to fix their union political allies’ problem.


66 posted on 12/08/2022 10:31:23 AM PST by chuckee
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To: chuckee

Gimme a few billion bucks, Joe.

The Covid ate all my money.


67 posted on 12/08/2022 10:36:28 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: chuckee
Teamsters previously supported Trump.

Biden payoff?
68 posted on 12/08/2022 10:42:34 AM PST by indthkr
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To: chuckee

I did not see it pointed out but as an old Kansas City boy I know that this was the same Central States Teamsters Pension Fund used as the mafia piggy bank in the ‘70s. So your taxes are paying for crooked unions to finance mobs buying casinos.


69 posted on 12/08/2022 10:48:19 AM PST by KC Burke
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To: chuckee

Putting it in social security is a much better decision. We’re going to have to add money to it eventually anyway.


70 posted on 12/08/2022 10:50:17 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: chuckee

Why are we all paying for Teamster pensions?


71 posted on 12/08/2022 10:50:47 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: newzjunkey
"It looks like the money was used to bail about the federal insurance program rather than the pensions directly if you read far enough in the article"

OH - so they moved it from the right pocket to the left pocket, and only THEN did they give it to the unions to bail-out their mismanaged pension funds. That's different then. {/sarcasm}

Why is this any different than wanting to "forgive" student loan debt? There, they have those without college degrees and those that were responsible enough to pay their loans, paying taxes that go to the ne'er-do-well crowd. Here, they take money from the American workers NOT covered by pensions (the vast majority), and use it to bail out the Unions. Last I checked, my retirement savings had gone to hell due to Biden-flation and resultant tanking of the stock & bond markets. Is Biden going to make my 401k "whole"?

72 posted on 12/08/2022 10:52:56 AM PST by Be Free (When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.)
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To: popdonnelly

“Why are we all paying for Teamster pensions?

Because they deliver votes and campaign contributions to the Democrats who funnel them the tax payer money in exchange. I believe it is the fundamental principle of the quid pro quo religion as practiced by Democrats


73 posted on 12/08/2022 10:54:50 AM PST by chuckee
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To: Red in Blue PA

Underfunded and over promised on returns. It’s a bad combination.


74 posted on 12/08/2022 10:56:24 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: Be Free

It is no different than funneling the union pensions the money directly. They used the pension benefit guaranty corp as a proxy intermediary to funnel the taxpayer money to their political allies to obfuscate the fact that the bailout of their underfunded plans is coming directly from the tax payers through a covid relief bill that has little to do with bailing out unions.


75 posted on 12/08/2022 11:01:50 AM PST by chuckee
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To: Be Free

It is no different than funneling the union pensions the money directly. They used the pension benefit guaranty corp as a proxy intermediary to funnel the taxpayer money to their political allies to obfuscate the fact that the bailout of their underfunded plans is coming directly from the tax payers through a covid relief bill that has little to do with bailing out unions.


76 posted on 12/08/2022 11:01:50 AM PST by chuckee
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To: chuckee

such a fool to ever consider working in this country...


77 posted on 12/08/2022 11:03:32 AM PST by cherry
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To: Antihero101607; Orosius; Rurudyne
Antihero101607 wrote: I think that in this day, in this country the government just does whatever, and cracks down on the citizen.

Yep.

Orosius wrote: It was allocated by Congress, in the two trillion dollar slush fund they voted for to “deal with Covid”

Gotta love them omnibus bills...

Rurudyne wrote: I feel like all those folks saying that the ship has sailed when I point out there is no enumerated power for the congress to even spend money on stuff like this.

With Arbitrary government there are no rules.

Something about Davy Crockett saying, "Not our money to spend..." comes to mind.

78 posted on 12/08/2022 11:21:20 AM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: chuckee

Just in time to force fund pension managers to invest in “ woke” schemes considered climate and social agenda- friendly


79 posted on 12/08/2022 11:21:23 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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To: chuckee

Lets see here -

Teamsters - the most criminal/corrupt labor union in the US - check

Teamsers mismanaged and wasted pension funds - check

Invested pension funds suffered under Biden policies - check

Teamster fatcat leadership still get their cushy money - check

Biden gives them a gift of $36 Billion...

When do I get my check to make up the loss in my retirement accounts due to Biden’s intentional destruction of the economy?


80 posted on 12/08/2022 11:22:29 AM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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