新发布的有关州和地方政府养老金的数据与政客们的陈述恰恰相反，他们正在攻击消防员和护理人员，并发出有关养老金资金的陈述，国际消防战士协会said.
2月1日由10个非党派国家，州和地方政府组织共同发布的情况说明表和问题摘要指出了绝大多数养老基金的偿付能力，这些资金拥有超过2.7万亿美元的资产，用于当前和未来的退休金。。这些小组说：“这些资金足以继续在未来付出充分的承诺福利。”
根据国家立法机关，全国县协会，美国市长会议，全国城市联盟，国家联盟会议发布，退休系统也仍然是州和地方政府预算的一小部分，约为3％的国家预算，约为3％。国际城市/县管理协会，全国国家审计师协会主计算员和司库，政府财务官员协会，国际人事人力资源管理协会，全国教师退休和国家退休管理协会。
IAFF总统哈罗德·施特伯格（Harold Schaitberger）表示：“消防员和护理人员为养老金贡献了绝大多数资金，多年来，健康市场的协助，保护了我们的投资。”“市场于2007年进入坦克，浸泡了各种投资，但大多数养老基金今天仍然非常健康。
“一些基金陷入困境,因为东北等州w Jersey and Illinois have not been making their required contributions and have used that money to fund other programs or balance their budgets,” Schaitberger said. Despite these unfunded liabilities, most state and local pensions are well funded–including in Florida and New York, where politicians have threatened to slash pension benefits. New York’s pensions are more than 100 percent funded, even as Gov. Anthony Cuomo is pledging cuts.
关于10个政府组织引用的养老金的关键事实包括：
- • State and local governments are already taking steps to secure their pensions for the long term;
- 养老金帮助每个司法管辖区的经济；
- 公共资金的长期投资回报继续超过预期；
- 州和地方政府退休系统不需要，也不需要寻求联邦财政援助。
Schaitberger said firefighters and paramedics are being victimized not only by deceitful politicians, but also by Wall Street opportunists who are lobbying to force firefighters into retirement plans that will cost workers more in fees and other costs, driving up profits for Wall Street. “The Wall Street speculators created the worst recession since 1929 and now they and their political allies are looking to take advantage of the situation to shake down worker pension funds.”
Schaitberger说：“消防员在他们的社区中，冒着生命危险并改善了邻居的生活质量。”“我们不应该受到寻求方便替罪羊的政客的攻击，以解决他们的财政问题。消防员是解决方案的一部分，而不是问题的一部分。”
有关其他信息，公共退休金概况说明表可获得以下网址：
http://www.nasra.org/resources/publicpensionfactsheet110125.pdf
问题摘要是http://nasra.org/resources/ercontributions.pdf
The International Association of Fire Fighters represents more than 298,000 full-time professional firefighters and paramedics and is the leading advocate for the health and safety of first responders. More information is available atwww.iaff.org。
