To the Editor:

Regarding the pension situation in this, my home state of Illinois (born here, educated here, volunteered for military duty here, raised a family here, and have lived and paid taxes here all my life), I find it sad that no one addresses where all that money owed the pension systems actually went.

Yes, it is billions. It was already paid by us in taxes. Was it stolen? No, too much to hide. Was it saved? Not hardly, or we wouldn’t owe it as debt. So, if all those billions weren’t stolen or squirreled away by the legislators we elected, where is it?