I just don’t understand how this is legal? How can someone pay into a system for years and years and then be told they are not getting what they had been promised? Someone please enlighten me.
With a gun or a pen.
Chicago is still Chicago.
County Board President Toni Preckwinkle went down to Springfield yesterday seeking support for her pension theft.
And to nobody’s surprise, she got it from the mobsters in the General Assemby and from their capo di tutti capo, Mike Madigan.
Preckwinkle said the legislators were “remarkably receptive” to her plan for cutting Cook County employee pensions.
But why would that be remarkable?
These guys and gals in Springfield love pension theft and are only to happy to go along.
Their promises only apply to things like cutting services and funding schools rather than keeping the five percent income tax.
But upholding their oath of office to abide by the Illinois Constitution and its pension protection clause?
Preckwinkle’s plan has the support of sell-out SEIU Local 73 President Christine Boardman. But AFSCME is not on board. And since the plan will…
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