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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bubblehead" data-source="post: 2010434" data-attributes="member: 14176">OK great, but with the information now given by yourself and SpongeBob, we now have to realize that a carve out like yours would have been even more difficult in the Central Region in the wake of the mismanagement of our pension over the past 2 decades.I guess we could have started shorting our new single employer fund?Kind of seems like robbing from "Peter to pay Paul".I wonder how it could be that the Western Pension is" fully funded and in the green", while the Central States pension is a shambles?Were there different economical phenomenon at play in this geographical region?Was the stock market stable out west, while volatility was abound everywhere else?Was freight not deregulated in this area?This just doesn't add up.</blockquote>