> Without actually showing some statistics on the pension payments and how the overall budget breaks down, I can't help but feel manipulated. The article links

> Without actually showing some statistics on the pension payments and how the overall budget breaks down, I can't help but feel manipulated. The article links the lack of public services to high pensions. It´s painted as if there were no other options but to cut on pensions. "In the meantime, mounting pension costs mean that a generation of schoolchildren is growing up in the area with no theater program, no orchestra, no wood shop and minimal sports, chorus and art." Because pensions are the only reason. Maybe increased inequality, the lack of taxing of the top 1%, money wasted on lobbying, are also causes. But we are not offered any data.