So the companies that pay OUR pensions rob us, why should we let the GOVERNMENT workers keep theirs?

This line of reasoning results in a race to the bottom and ends up with everyone except the top 1% wallowing in the gutter. You should be asking why corporations are allowed to steal from their workers, not why governments have to keep promises to theirs.

It is even better when you consider the first thing cut at EVERY company in times of trouble is the pension funds.

What I don't understand is why we keep letting the people we work for control our medical and retirements.

If you are under 40 chances are your going to work for 6-10 different major companies in your life. You don't go down the street and work at the local factory for 50 years anymore.

We really need to pull the companies we work for out of those equations. it will be a nice break for them and it will be better for the rest of us.

Savages who have among them researchers who may have invented a medicine that may end up ranking near penicillin in greatness... Every single major problem in Africa took root from colonialism IMO.

Your entire set of comments sounds like "White Man's Burden" to me. I suggest you study the continent and the problems it faces before suggesting the world treat them like savages.