Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100203:11:42:00
Retirement benefits it's bankrupting cities across the country. chris becker works hard, lives for the day he can retire and collect his pension, all of it. >> that was the whole reason i took the job, was the security and the benefits. >> reporter: about that pension, some say mr. becker ought to enjoy the dream while he can. there's an all-out war on union negotiated taxpayer funded pensions from new york to california. >> we have cities that are on the verge of bankruptcy, cannot make that pension payment. we have to do something. >> reporter: in california the two larger pension systems ar...