Bring pension know-it-alls to justice

The Madigan-led General Assembly has destroyed the economy of Illinois for decades. The illegally purged pension funds, belonging to state employees, must be returned.

The perpetrators of the theft should be brought to justice. (That is the real world.) In Illinois, Attorney General Madigan's office hemorrhages cash attempting to redefine the definition of is. The office should defend the constitutional rights of the hard working service providers of the state.

Attempting to rewrite the constitution or invoke a crisis power to rob earned benefits is not protecting constitutional rights.

Enter, "Shake up Springfield" (a slogan my 92-year-old mother used as a youngster). Zero days on the job (or any job remotely similar) and he knows EXACTLY what to do and how to do it. On your first as a cop, fireman, teacher, baker, store clerk, electrician or surgeon, did you tell those working there the "new" ONLY way to do anything?

This editorial page published a legal pension fix from Pew Research. Placing NEW employees in a new pension plan is THE plan. Not a reduction for a new employee, it is the plan in place.

The new plan would be a fair pension appropriate for 2015 vs. 1970. In 70 years, the state is out of the pension business. The cost can be figured and met.

Perhaps the Daily Herald could forward the Pew editorial to the shaken-up Springfield. A real shake-up would be to serve the people of Illinois. Think outside of the box.

Your ideas are hostile and outdated. Oh yeah, those ideas have not worked. Stop saying the same thing over and over. There are solutions, listen to them.

Now go tell the mechanic how to fix your car.

Alan P. Murdoch

Arlington Heights