right you know, alex, look at it this way, you know, captain sull sullenburger took off with a double engine failure. he landed that plane safely. he made decisions that machines cannot make. oh, i know. i mean, exactly. the safety concerns are incredible. i read it s probably 20 years before they would consider trying this first on cargo planes. like u.p.s. or fedex, that kind of thing. that s more likely. so, that s the first step. what i can t figure out is given all the problems that could happen, michael, would this really save airlines money? i mean, the lawsuit at just the smallest, smallest infraction well, the hypothetical that you re raising is valid today. but in 20, 30, 50 years from
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 are $165 billion in the red. here s why. you re looking at the 100 k club, a list of retired government workers compiled by the citizen activist group for fiscal responsibility and change. each person gets a pension of at least $100,000 a year.