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Most private-sector folks don't get a pension.

Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.

There are hardly any private sector employees who get both a 401k and a pension. There's just no need that Congress should get both.

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it's wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.