And was it right, she asked, that members of Parliament should be entitled to two pensions — one attached to their profession and another after they have served just two terms in the legislature?
(You can tell yourself you've already earned your pension, no strings attached, through 45 years of hard work – but remember, that attitude just gets you 55 years of hard work).
"The French are attached to their pension system — but, how could they not be?" Mr. Ayrault said Tuesday.
Pension deficits, which I've personally seen reduce charity executives to the brink of tears, I hope will have been shored up by a wealthy philanthropist, or possibly government, meaning that the British Airways analogy of pension funds with a charity attached won't materialise.
Rather than issue a plain-vanilla bond with a fixed interest rate, Denver followed its bankers' suggestions and issued so-called pension certificates with a derivative attached; the debt carried a lower rate but it could also fluctuate if economic conditions changed.
Understandably, telent wants to be something more than a small company attached to a huge pension fund.
And many people now buy life insurance with an annuity attached that serves as a pension.
As one analyst puts it, "Corus is an £11 billion pension plan with a problematic steel business attached".
"Trinity Mirror is basically a massive pension problem that happens to have some newspapers attached to it," said one City analyst.
The most detailed source for this action is a deposition attached to the application for a military pension of John Schanck, cousin of Captain John Schenck, the leader of the Patriot militia; detailed British accounts do not appear to exist.
