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quarta-feira, outubro 26, 2005

How to Kick the Oil Habit

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Publicado por irreflexoes 12:43:00    

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1. António said...
   2:22 da tarde, outubro 26, 2005  
   Seguindo o artigo e saltando de link em link cheguei a este, elucidativo para quem pensa que a retorica do governo português é demasiado pesada para com os funcionarios publicos:
   
   As a result, many employees in the private sector will get hit with a double whammy: while their pensions erode, increasingly they will be hit with cuts in government services and forced to pay higher taxes to cover the pensions of public employees, the kind they can only dream about. In three-fourths of the states, public pensions even come with annual cost-of-living increases, a fringe benefit absent from private pensions.
   
   e ainda esta pérola, talvez seja este um dos fundos de investimento preferidos do Chomsky:
   
   (...)
   CalPERS, by the way, invests in vulture funds formed by Wilbur Ross, the New York billionaire who specializes in buying bankrupt companies, slashing costs and then selling the firms for an oversize profit. Among the costs pared: pensions. In short, a public-employee pension fund makes money from the killing of private pensions
   
   Fonte: TIME: where pensions are Golden
   
   (homemDASneves)

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