Don't trust politicians to solve pension crisis

The blame for the state pension structure can be placed on either or both parties. Neither should be entrusted to fix it.

They don't have real "skin in the game."

Truly responsible negotiators are needed to manage the funding and dispersal of the involved funds.

Politicians are stating every day that it could take years to fix. That's because they are all beholden first to their financial supporters and power brokers before the pensioners and voters can even be considered.

That's just not right. Proper negotiators could probably solve the structural and monetary situations in days, if not less, were they to be protected from all the "ax-grinders" hovering over the cache of money they want to give to everyone but the ones that need it.

All of the politicians, from the governor on down, are not the proper ones to make those decisions because their methods involve figuring out how to make the working class pay more and not jeopardize their votes in the next election.

Tom Schoenke

Grayslake