To the Editor:

Gov. Pat Quinn once again has provided us with cannon fodder. At the conclusion of the spring legislative session, he proclaimed that he was put on this earth to solve the pension problem. I couldn’t have been happier to think we were being blessed with divine intervention to deal with this crisis.

Well, a special summer session in Springfield has passed and a fall veto session has passed with nary a word of the pension shortfall. I’ve come to believe that the governor misread the tea leaves and actually has been put on this earth to be a human punching bag.