"[I]f you have good pensions, you recognize, that -- unlike people that don't have good pensions or who have 401(k) plans and have to keep managing that money over your lifetime -- you can keep spending money in the economy.... [W]e have to halt these assaults on retirement security. The same people who want to destroy Medicare and Social Security -- all programs with collective risk -- also are working to undermine public and private pension plans, all in favor of a so-called 'ownership society.'"  MORE >>