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2010-07-04 Economy

Illinois facing 'outright disaster' amid budget crisis

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Posted by Fred 2010-07-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 That's why they sent one of their own to DC.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-07-04 05:12|| 2010-07-04 05:12|| Front Page Top

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#1 That's why they sent one of their own to DC.

Yeah, grom. Like a metastasizing cancer......The gift that keeps on giving. They need someone like a Mayor Bing, backed up by the National Guard.

Posted by Alaska Paul in NW Iceland 2010-07-04 06:40|| 2010-07-04 06:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Mr. Hynes is a card carrying member of the 'Combine' -- that group of insider Dems and Reps that have run Illinois into the ground.

He might be a decent enough guy one on one. Might be good conversation with a beer in his hand.

But he and the Combine have wrecked my state.

If the state had, over the past twenty years, simply limited the increases in its spending to the inflation rate plus population growth rate, Illinois would not have a deficit today.

Instead the Combine had the state spend lavishly on pensions for public employees, new prisons that we can't even open, increased transfers to Chicago, and -- of course -- all sorts of goodies for their favored hangers-on.

That's why we're $19 billion in the hole.

If I were to go along with new taxes in my state, what assurance do I have that the new money would be used to fix the problems? None whatsoever, which is why I won't vote for a tax increase, and why I'll vote against my state rep or senator if they do.

It's not just a financial deficit. It's a trust deficit. I don't trust the Combine. I have no reason to trust them.

Posted by Steve White 2010-07-04 11:03|| 2010-07-04 11:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Ill has not been able to reimburse the physicians of its state employees for nine months (timing sound familiar? cf ObozoCare).

State tried to blame the insurers that administer its plans, but the fact is Ill isn't funding its plans (big lie sound familiar? Cf OblahblahCare)and even the politically connected halfwits that make up the state employee pop are wising up.

Posted by regular joe 2010-07-04 12:56|| 2010-07-04 12:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The economy will not improve period!. They will raise taxes and tax anything and everything. The result will be more of the same. This time next year things will be twice as bad. They see yet they are blind, they hear yet they don't listen, they have a brain yet they don't comprehend what they see or hear. This is kalkaesque.

Posted by Dale 2010-07-04 18:01|| 2010-07-04 18:01|| Front Page Top

#6 'Kafkaesque"? Dale is right. Idealogues are not leaders. They will take us all down their Golden Path to our inevitable destruction. It will fall to those of us who are left to rebuild what we can. Hope to see you all on the other side.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2010-07-04 20:32|| 2010-07-04 20:32|| Front Page Top

#7 our inevitable destruction?

Theirs will come first. The Marie Antoinette type public figures of the world never endure.

Posted by Tyranysaurus Slomong2642 2010-07-04 20:37|| 2010-07-04 20:37|| Front Page Top

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