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Indiana state pensions sue to stop Obama’s Chrysler deal
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 | Economics |
Obama’s plan for Chrysler demoted senior debt holders (whom he maligned as “speculators”) to benefit UAW union members. As a consequence of that decision Obama’s plan shortchanged police and teachers unions who had Chrysler investments in their pension funds. Now the state of Indiana is suing.
As stated in the filings, the US Treasury Task Force is seeking to use the Chrysler bankruptcy to extinguish the property rights of the pension funds as secured lenders, violating the most fundamental tenets of creditor rights in disregard of widely recognized bankruptcy jurisprudence. The proposed restructuring of stakeholders’ rights seeks to make payments of billions of dollars to unsecured creditors, while paying the secured creditors only 29 cents on the dollar.
“As fiduciaries, we can’t allow our retired police officers and teachers to be ripped off by the federal government. The Indiana state funds suffered losses when the Obama administration overturned more than 100 years of established law by redefining ‘secured creditors’ to mean something less,” explained Treasurer Richard Mourdock. “The court filing is aimed not only at recouping those losses but also reasserting the rule of law and preventing the federal government from pursuing policies that strike at the heart of the capital system.”
It’s Economics In One Lesson again: “The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”
Previously: Obama’s GM plan pits unionized retirees against non-unionized retirees
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May 23, 2009