But pension commitments last forever.

但是养老金的义务永远地延续下来。

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As workers lived longer, the cost of fulfilling pension commitments rose.

随着工人寿命的增长，履行养老金义务所需的成本亦随之上升。

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That will impose colossal financial burdens in a country already struggling to meet its pension commitments to the elderly.

那将会给这个已经在努力兑现其对老年人养老金承诺的国家加上巨大的财务负担。

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Unaffordable public-pension commitments threaten the fiscal solvency of many countries in the European Union.

ECONOMIST: Time to grow up | The

Lieber lays out the case for states to scale back their pension commitments.

FORBES: Who is Stealing Your Retirement?

In addition to the abandonment or paring back of defined benefit pension commitments, obligations to fund retiree health care costs are falling by the wayside.

FORBES: A Nation on the Precipice: Our Failed Retirement System (October 12, 2007)