Experts: Voters Need to Hold Legislators Accountable for Pension Problems
A panel of experts gathered in Woodridge Wednesday to talk about potential fixes for Illinois' pension woes.
When it comes to state pensions, Illinois is in a financial hole as deep as $90 billion and digging out will be a formidable task, according to a panel of west suburban experts who met this week to discuss the issue. Panelists met Wednesday at Seven Bridges Golf Club in Woodridge to discuss how Illinois got in the state-pension hole and what it might take to get out. "Pensions have created the majority of the problem in our non-discretionary spending," said Lee Daniels, former speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and now a Distinguished Fellow and Special Assistant to the President of Elmhurst College. Daniels moderated the discussion with a panel of experts that included 21st District State Senator Ron Sandack (R-Downers Grove…
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Marie
5:57 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012
And by the looks of it, your readers would rather attack each other about childish comic strips than discuss the pension bomb or contact their reps about it. The media play to the most intellectually challenged for readership, and politicians play to them to keep their sweet pension deals on the taxpayers' backs. more ›