You are not addressing anything anyone posted. Christ. Your "if you read. ... and still think" is some kind of Kafkaesque strawman. Nobody said they "think" the dumb thing you keep repeating. You aren't addressing what anyone ACTUALLY said.
Here is reality: Illinois' yearly pension costs consume 25 percent of the state's general fund budget. Yes, that is a RECENT escalation of the problem to crisis levels. It directly relates to the stagnant economy, and how hard Illinois has been particularly hit, over the last decade. As recently as 10 years ago, those pension costs were only 6 or 7 percent of the general fund budget. If Illinois' economy had grown only slightly more over the last 10 years, those costs are not overwhelming the state the way they now are -- because the growing economy translates to greater revenue for the state, which means that they stay on their treadmill longer.
S&P and Moody's both downgraded Illinois debt to near junk (lowest ever for a U.S. state) a few weeks ago. They cited Illinois' pension, along with its backlog of bills, which combined are equivalent to about 40 percent of its operating budget. Illinois has been deteriorating for quite a while, but that unprecedented downgrade didn't come decades ago. It came now -- for a reason.