Too late for 'quick fix' on pensions

I find it ironic that your news article on the pension crisis and the Illinois legislature asks if a quick fix is possible. It is much too far into the crisis for any fix to be quick.

The people who call themselves our representatives delayed any fix again last year passing a law that they should have known would be rejected by the Illinois Supreme Court.

Some of them have been around long enough (too long?) to have voted to put the pension protection passage into the constitution in order to secure union votes that they felt they needed or donations that they wanted.

Until a miracle happens and someone other than Michael Madigan and John Cullerton determine which bills come to the floor of the Illinois House and Senate respectively, we will continue to wallow in a financial mess that these people helped create.

First, they put pension protection in the constitution. Second, they passed bill after bill spending money they did not have while not paying expenses for which they were already liable.

Third, they passed a pension reform bill that was doomed from the moment it was signed.

Fourth, they had the hubris to run for re-election even after showing they are unable to do what is right for the citizens of Illinois.

David Krein

Schaumburg