[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by Via Chicago

if you had concerns about the pension obligations being laid out in the 70s and 80s then you should have brought them up then. you and your generation were around. i wasnt. who's fault is it that my generation has inherited this problem again? whos fault is it that the social contract in this country has collapsed? where were you when the state and the city simply choose not to pay their bills in the 90s? "i have an idea, lets blame it on the damn kids!"

unless you have some sort of statistic to cite regarding what % of people on pensions are leaving the state, then all i can assume is youre being melodramatic and making things up. pensions are delayed compensation for services rendered, they can spend their retirement money how they see fit. also, IL already offers an incentive for pensioners to stay by not taxing their pension income.

the notion that you, an old rich man living in the suburbs who stumbles down once in a while to gorge at steakhouses, cares one way or the other about the reality of the Chicago taxpayer living outside of the Emerald City day in and day trying to scrape by is whats funny.

Huh? I was born in 1976.

I inherited this mess from the slime balls who made these shady deals way before I was born