Important Bankruptcy and Pension Articles

I am very concerned about what is going on nationally about public pensions and how it may, in my opinion, be connected to the Detroit bankruptcy. On March 24 Governor Snyder and Kevyn Orr, Emergency Manager, went to speak at the Manhattan Institute about Detroit's bankruptcy. http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140324/METRO01/303240067

The Manhattan Institute has worked with the John Arnold Foundation to implement pension reform which is highly questionable. Jones Day is suggesting that a person from the Manhattan Institute lead the bankruptcy experts in the trial in Detroit! This should not be allowed. http://www.freep.com/article/20140331/NEWS01/303310064/Detroit-bankruptcy-expert-witness-Edward-Glaeser.

The Detroit bankruptcy should be put on hold until this national pension issue is thoroughly investigated. Below are articles to educate you about the wide scope of what is going on with public pension "reform" in the United States.

Detroit is pension reform's whipping boy Commentary: Clawbacks on earned benefits is
the equivalent of a poll tax - Wall Street Journal Marketwatch
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/detroit-is-pension-reforms-whipping-boy-2013-09-24

Rhode Island's Pension Pirates
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rhode-islands-pension-pirates-2013-10-24

Rhode Island Public Pension Reform: Wall Street's License to Steal - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsiedle/2013/10/18/rhode-island-public-pension-reform-wall-streets-license-to-steal/

Looting the Pension Funds - Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926

Rhode Island Drops Hedge Fund Criticized by Unionized Teachers
http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20140130-r.i.-state-investment-commission-drops-hedge-fund-criticized-by-unionized-teachers.ece

Jacksonville Buyers Beware: Pew Partners with the Arnold Foundation to Bring a Crippling Plan for Public Pensions to Jacksonville - the National Public Pension Coalition
http://www.truthaboutpensions.org/media/releases/jacksonville-buyers-beware-pew-partners-with-the-arnold-foundation-to-bring-a-crippling-plan-for-public-pensions-to-jacksonville

New Reports Reveal Depth of Corporate Collusion in Pension Attacks - the Public Pension Institute http://www.publicpensioninstitute.org/public/10450.cfm

Promise Breakers: How Pew Trust Is Helping to Gut Public Employee Pensions - California
Federation http://www.calaborfed.org/index.php/site/page /promise_breakers_how_pew_trust_is_helping_to_gut_public_employee_pensions

Arnold Foundation Mess Has Gray In A Tizzy - Page One Kentucky
http://pageonekentucky.com/2014/02/21/arnold-foundation-mess-has-gray-in-a-tizzy/

Report: Pew and Arnold Working Together to Slash Pensions - Rhode Island Future
http://www.rifuture.org/report-pew-arnold-working-together-to-slash-pensions.html

ALEC and TIAA-CREF Join the Assault on Public Pensions
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19556-alec-and-tiaa-cref-join-the-assault-on-public-pensions

Slash and Burn: California Pension War
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/california-pension-war_n_3862157.html

These two articles are from the groups who are acting, in my opinion, questionably:

This one shares info from the John Arnold Foundation - Pension Reform: Litigate, Negotiate or Go Bankrupt
http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2013/01/11/pension-reform-litigate-negotiate-or-go-bankrupt/

Why Detroit Needs Bankruptcy - from the Manhattan Institute
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/miarticle.htm?id=9853#.U0SZiqJEwuY