AYFKM?: $3 TRILLION In Unfunded Pension Liabilities?

According to Elizabeth Norcross of the Mercatus Center, the states’ $452 Billion in unfunded pension liabilities is closer to $3 Trillion ‘when you get the accounting right’.  How’s that red crayon math working out now?

For those that missed this post:

States Fast Approaching Financial Abyss

“…but the day of reckoning is at hand. The debt crisis is already making Wall Street nervous, and some believe that it could derail the recovery, cost a million public employees their jobs, and require another big bailout package that no one in Washington wants to talk about.” – 60 Minutes

60 Minutes has done a thirteen minute report on the approaching day of reckoning for the states who are drowning in the deep end of the fiscal pool. According to Gov. Chris Christie, it’s not a income problem, it is a government employee benefit problem, and according to Meredith Whitney (highly respected Wall St. financial analyst) who has done research on the financial health of states and cities, this spring will see an influx of municipalities defaulting on their bonds because $160 Billion of federal stimulus cash will run out (just about the time the next round of residential and commercial mortgage resets occurs). She was calling out the big banks about the problems ahead for them long before they wanted to admit their liability, and those very same municipal bonds that will be defaulted on are owned, in the majority, by those very same big banks. Let’s all get ready for T.A.R.P. 2.0.