>The reason the T is broken is because people were retiring at 38 with a full pension.

That's anti-union propaganda you're parroting. I'd have to dig and find it now, but there was a detailed report commissioned by the state comparing the finances of the T with the subway systems in municipalities in other parts of the country. The conclusion showed that pensions had essentially nothing to do with the budgetary problems of the T.

The information is available, but it is ignored by conservative politicians because it doesn't fit the agenda so you get to hear it stated as an undeniable truth that it is the pensions (i.e. unions) that are the root cause of all the problems. In fact if you hear Baker say that you can tell him to stuff a sock in it because it was his financial shell game in the 1990s that tied Big Dig debt to the T's budget and carries far more blame than anything having to do with the T's pensions.