With politicians, retirees and city and state governments struggling to find ways to address unfunded defined benefit pension obligations, there's been plenty of disagreement over all kinds of "facts" surrounding the issue.

Richard Dreyfuss, a senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute of Public Policy, set out to address and debunk what he described as some of the myths and half-truths surrounding public-sector pension reform.

Here are 11 of them:

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