California state employee Diane Greagor joined hundreds of other
state employees and supporters in a demonstration against proposed
budget cuts to state employee pay, furloughs and other state services
during a rally at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich
Pedroncelli)
Any police officer, teacher or janitor who works in city
government until retirement and expects well-planned pension benefits
should be worried about the status of his or her economic future.
Powerful anti-pension lobbyists want to take that entitlement away
from the masses, and they’re willing to bring the media in on their
crusade, according to a journalist working for the San Francisco-based
news website Pando Daily.
In his piece on Wednesday, “The Wolf of Sesame Street,”
David Sirota, an investigative journalist, author and
nationally-syndicated columnist, alleges that the Public Broadcasting
Service’s flagship station WNET in New York is colluding with “former
Enron trader John Arnold, a billionaire political powerbroker who is
actively trying to shape the very pension policy that the series claims
to be dispassionately covering” in a new two-year news series entitled,
“The Pension Peril.”
The announcement of the show on Dec. 18 in a press release by
WNET said the “reporting initiative will shine a spotlight on an
expected $1 trillion-plus shortfall in funding for public employees’
retirement benefits, and what it means for cities and states, retirees
and current workers, and taxpayers. “The Pension Peril” will introduce
millions of Americans to the tough choices ahead and possible models of
reform.”
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