Readers Weigh in on Pension Reform
A Monday night town hall meeting on pension reform generated a debate both at the meeting and on Patch.
Monday night's meeting in Wilmette on pension reform draw a wide array of debate and opinions — both at the actual meeting and in the comment section of Patch. Illinois' credit rating was downgraded to an A- at the end of January by Standard & Poor, making it the lowest out of the fifty states. The low rating is, in large part, due to the state's pension debt, which is currently at $95 billion. Monday night's meeting aimed to discuss Senate Bill 35 (SB35) and House Bill 98 (HB98), which both aim to end the "long, bitter impasse over pension reform at the state Capitol by combining what has been proposed by business, labor, legislators and civic groups with some new ideas," according to a hand-out passed out before the meeting began. …
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4:59 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Worth pointing out that the meeting was dominated by people from other communities. There are websites for the extremist pension protectors and they were stoking their readers to come prior to the meeting. I saw no locals among those making doing the histrionics. The locals got in only a few questions at the end, to the satisfaction of the organized outsiders, one of whom put it this way on their… more ›