[ajross]

Not as an optional item to be ejected because of "better planning", no. Absent any budgetary concerns, there are hundreds of thousands of people who worked careers for these cities with the expectation that they could skip retirement savings because there was a pension. Throwing that out at the behest of a 20-something on HN who's fully funding a 401k with a tech salary isn't "responsible government", it's just selfish.

[wlesieutre]

Nobody said anything about ejecting it, just that the city budgets are screwed. They’re welcome to address that in whatever other way they’d like.