,
My beloved state of Illinois has a terrible economy, and a shrinking tax base but that is apparently no problem for the bi-partisan pirates who have been plundering the Land of Lincoln for decades:
Go to the Chicago Tribune here to read the enraging rest.
This farce is going to be coming to an end in the foreseeable future simply due to the State running out of money, and when that day of reckoning comes, and Illinois suffers a devastating blow to its economy, all of the citizens of the Sucker State should remember that this disaster has been completely man made and completely preventable, and that most of them are at fault for electing too many politicians to office who clearly think first, last and always of lining their own pockets.
Not only do incidents like this hurt taxpayers, they also hurt the vast majority of state employees who cannot and will not ever receive pensions that large — if indeed they receive a pension at all, at the rate things are going.
“…if indeed they receive a pension at all, at the rate things are going.”
The only pension I have is what I save myself. My saving rate is hurt by taxes.
…and Illinois had to add insult to injury by giving the nation Obama to everlasting shame.
Born and raised in the Land of Lincoln, going to school in Georgia, and never looking back (well, maybe for a Bulls game or two).
They should start showing this commercial in Wisconsin. Too many people up here still think Scott Walker is being very mean to the poor teachers. I’m not a huge Ann Coulter fan, but she summed up the situation very nicely by noting that the public union employees want the people in the private sector – people who are already suffering – to suffer more so public union employees do not have to suffer at all. What floors me is how many private sector people have fallen for the union propaganda.
Ah, well, as Mark Steyn has been saying lately, civilisations can die of stupidity. We sure seem to be headed that way.
“Too many people up here still think Scott Walker is being very mean to the poor teachers.”
The Illinois Chamber of Commerce has invited Walker to address a meeting in Springfield on April 17 regarding solutions to the pension/budget crisis. Of course, union types are vowing to protest the appearance.
In some ways, however, our Democratic governor, Pat Quinn, is not exactly a friend of unions either. At the end of the last fiscal year, he announced out of the blue that pay increases previously negotiated as part of a union contract would be frozen, on the grounds that not enough money had been appropriated to cover them. In other words, Quinn abruptly reneged on an existing contract, whereas Walker used the legislative process to change the law first and gave everyone plenty of notice of what he intended to do. After the pay freeze was imposed some AFSCME officials complained that Quinn was “worse than Walker” for that very reason!