>> if you didn't give them lavish pension we couldn't recruit the same employees. those arguments were false. they led us down the wrong path. >> we are the ones that are being demonized by carl demile, every day acting as if we are the ones with the six-figure pension. >> unions say average workers aren't the issue. it's the white collar management dropping the pension. a retired librarian left her job with $234,000 annual pension. >> i want the taxpayers to know that government employees are going to receive no better retirement package, retirement contribution than the hard-working families that pay the bills. taxpayers. >> san diego edition of this is similar to one in san jose, where the officials blame soaring pension for inability to start new library and police station. stockton is considering bankruptcy to avoid the pension obligations. but it's san diego where the unions are mobilizing.