Private lobbyists get public pensions in 20 states

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. And ~$20K in Illinois.

Illinois has a pension problem but no one wants to look at the simple ways to resolve it while there's any chance of doing some union busting in the process.
The PTB have done a great PR job here in getting non-pensioners to look at us pensioners and take either of the following positions:

1) Those featherbedding, goldbricking public employees are ripping us off with their gold plated deals! Nobody gets pensions anymore! Where's mine?! I'm not going to pay one more penny in taxes to fix this mess!
2) Sure the public employees aren't to blame. They paid in to the system all theses years BUT they have to be realistic! We just don't have the money!

I've been spending an awful lot of time following published stories on this and fighting ignorance with facts in the comments sections. It's just exhausting.