Shock report! Detroit stole its way to bankruptcy!

Detroit Spent Billions Extra on Pensions - NYTimes.com:
"Detroit’s municipal pension fund made payments for decades to retirees, active workers and others above and beyond normal benefits, costing the struggling city billions of dollars and helping push it into bankruptcy, according to people who have reviewed the payments.
The payments, which were not publicly disclosed, included bonuses to retirees, supplements to workers not yet retired and cash to the families of workers who died before becoming eligible to collect a pension, according to reports by an outside actuary and other people with knowledge of the matter.
How much each person received is not known. But available records suggest that the trustees approving the payments did not discriminate; nearly everybody in the plan received them.
Most of the trustees on Detroit’s two pension boards represent organized labor, and for years they could outvote anyone who challenged the payments."