LA $1 billion in the red. Go for pensions? Obviously. (Politics)

There's no doubt that a government job is a sweet deal. You get a government job and you're set for life, or at least that's how it used to be. More than 60 years of this spoils system and even government officials now are talking about those cushy jobs seriously. Maybe it's not such a good idea that we pick and choose which jobs will be loaded. Maybe not letting consumers decide which jobs will be most lucrative was a bad idea. Maybe, just maybe, government is as efficient as consumers are with how they spend their money. We know what we want, the government is never going to be as good as us.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/11/la-faces-1-billion-deficit-by-2013-budget-chief-calls-for-pension-reforms.html

Anyway, the budget chief is calling for pension reforms. What else can you say but "about friggin' time."