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That's the sort of headlines you're gonna be seeing pretty soon, if the tyke shown below is any indication:

Here's a column of his, run recently at Manhattan's fabled New York Spinal Tap. It's exactly the sort of thing that upper West Side America deserves and oughta admire.

Battle Looms Over Huge Costs of Public Pensions

There’s a class war coming to the world of government pensions.

"The haves are retirees who were once state or municipal workers. Their seemingly guaranteed and ever-escalating monthly pension benefits are breaking budgets nationwide. The have-nots are taxpayers who don’t have generous pensions. Their 401(k)s or individual retirement accounts have taken a real beating in recent years and are not guaranteed. And soon, many of those people will be paying higher taxes or getting fewer state services as their states put more money aside to cover those pension checks."

Now follow that up with this looming hanging curve query: "Who should pay for the trillion-dollar pension gap?"

The rest is scrambled eggs, starting with this basic 'numbers please' face-off ;

• Average annual SS retiree benefit payment? $14k
• Average Colorado teacher pension payout? Closer to $35k.

"Got"? Well, see, the Colorado legislature barbered the contracts a bit recently.

Are you interested in capitalizing these backroom deals doled out in the prior 40-50 years or so? Mr Columnist does. Taking the Colorado teachers as a for-instance, our NYC weekend relief pitcher here discovers (at a handy online insurance agency) that a 58-year-old male shopping for an annuity with the same set of outputs would have to hand over a minimum of $860,000! A woman would need at least $928,000, because of her longer life expectancy.

Now I'll do some math myself to break out the $20k increment above average SS payment really involved here, and yikes -- being just an average retiring 58-year-old Colorado public school male teacher is to be worth $500k more today then being an average Mcjobbled jerk of 62-65.

Talk radio can make some damn ugly music out of that, eh?

Sum-up, pinko style:

Teachers get 30 years of second-rate pay in exchange for a first-rate pension. Maybe fair enough, all things considered. But, comes time to collect, and what happens? What else -- the eye-patched slash-and-burn Yahoo demagogues bring out the cutlasses.

We got the makings of a continuing nation-wide saga underway here. Care to bet on the outcome?