Has anyone read the state constitution?

Perhaps the General Assembly has a good idea in foisting the pensions on the local school districts. Perhaps each district could start a districtwide lottery with the funds going to education. After all, that worked so well for the state.

I would like to remind the governor and legislators of this great state that funding education is “the primary responsibility of the state,” according to the Illinois State Constitution, a document that does not appear to have been read by anyone in power in Springfield.

I would suggest that the General Assembly and the governor could be impeached for ignoring a constitution that they swear to uphold.

In any event, if the state had not borrowed liberally from the pension fund, and indeed funded it as required, perhaps there would be no pension crisis. I would also suggest that the General Assembly and governor(s) should be thrown out for dereliction of duty or theft.

Finally, maybe the state should just forgo the pension system it cannot seem to run and go to Social Security as many have suggested. That would at least have to be funded or the feds could treat the General Assembly members and governor as it does private employers who fail to fund into the Social Security system. That is, they could arrest them all, try them all and put them in jail.

That at least might be an economy of scale and we would not have to pay piecemeal for each trial for each governor and crooked politician the feds go after.

Jim Sather

Geneva