Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
$200,224,896,429 is the total 2018 Unfunded Actuarial Liability for most of the public sector pension plans in Illinois, per the Illinois Department of Insurance, Public Pension Division, Pension Data Portal, 2019 Biennial Report Summary Spreadsheets.
https://insurance.illinois.gov/Applications/Pension/PensionDataPortal.aspx
That excludes mass transit (CTA, RTA, METRA, PACE, etc.), housing (CHA, etc.), and the South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District Pension Plan in Harvey.