HOW IS the British government getting away with this idea that a public-sector pension is a "luxury"? Is it something that suave bachelors could show off, saying: "Once I've taken you for a spin in my Aston Martin, how about I show you the mid-range forecast for my teacher's pension over a bottle of Veuve Cliquot."
A pension is a necessity, so you might as well say we simply can't go on enjoying the luxury of a sewage system, given that the amount of waste we're flushing is 35 percent higher than in 1996--so from 2015, we've got to throw it out the window, or otherwise, we'll end up like Greece.
http://socialistworker.org/2011/07/06/living-public-sector-pension-l