A MESSAGE FOR ILLINOIS LEGISLATORS
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Dear Illinois Legislators:
If you pass “pension reform” as it is now being considered in committee, you will join a long line of corrupt and unethical Illinois legislators.
You stole (you called it borrowing), the teachers’ pension money over a lengthy period of time. You also technically stole more than the original money because that money could have been invested and earned a lot more money. Now, if you diminish the benefits of current retirees, you will actually be stealing again from the same people that you stole from in the first place. You are now asking the victims of your robberies to give up more of their money to replace what you stole. Illinois legislators, if you pass this “pension reform”, you are basically admitting that you are SERIAL STEALERS.
You took a vow to uphold the Illinois Constitution. If you pass this “pension reform”, you will be in violation o
