Yes, the pension crisis is an emergency. But whose fault is that?

Yes, the pension crisis is an emergency. But whose fault is that?
ChicagoTribune.com

The formal responses filed Thursday by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to a series of lawsuits challenging proposed pension changes put me in mind of the old joke that defines chutzpah — the Yiddish word for brazen audacity — as murdering your parents and then begging the courts for mercy because you’re an orphan.