48% of Voters Think Public Pensions Are About Right or Not Generous Enough

Just a straw in the wind from the latest California Field Poll. Note that the headline on the poll press release (see URL below) is "MORE CALIFORNIA VOTERS NOW VIEW PUBLIC PENSION BENEFITS AS TOO GENEROUS." What the headline refers to is the change since October 2009 in the response to the "Too Generous" option. Yours truly is more impressed with the fact - reflected in the headline on this blog post - that after the Bell City scandal and all of the agitation about public pensions - voter opinion still tilts toward "About Right" and "Not Generous Enough." It is true that when given options for pension caps, two-tier arrangements, etc., the public tends to favor them.

The headline in the San Francisco Chronicle was "Poll: CA public-worker benefits 'too generous.'" The headline in the Sacramento Bee was "Field Poll: Californians OK with unions but support public pension rollback."

Full poll is at http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2369.pdf

For poll junkies, still more data are available at http://field.com/fieldpollonline/subscribers/Rls2369.pdf