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2017-06-02 Government

S&P, Moody's Downgrade Illinois to Near Junk

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Posted by Fred 2017-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 I think it is time for Indiana, Missouri and Indiana to form a coalition and liberate Chicago.

Posted by Voldemort Hupomomble1468 2017-06-02 00:35|| 2017-06-02 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Why the heck would they want it?

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-06-02 00:41|| 2017-06-02 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 To contain the spread of Illinois refugees. Illinois can be considered a territory of Indiana, Iowa (third state I meant to mention above) and Missouri, much like Puerto Rico, until they achieve AAA rating under the guidance of mentally competent leadership.

Posted by Voldemort Hupomomble1468 2017-06-02 00:55|| 2017-06-02 00:55|| Front Page Top

#4 A day of financial reckoning may soon be coming for Illinois and California. When that day comes, I hope the do nothing Congress has enough courage to tell them to go to hell.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-02 02:24|| 2017-06-02 02:24|| Front Page Top

#5 The time that Keynes predicted - "In the end, we are all dead anyways" - has arrived.

The rank and file are shocked that this thing they were told was sustainable forever is blowing up in their faces. The smarter individuals among Democrats and the rest of the left, the public thugocracy and the politicians and the professoriate and the Davoisie, have ALWAYS known that the Keynesian project would ultimately go bust, they just hoped it would be after they had lived a long and comfortable life. The ones living now have the misfortune of being still alive when the endpoint of stealing from the productive and from their progeny's future has occurred.

It was a gamble on their part. They've crapped out.

Posted by no mo uro 2017-06-02 05:34|| 2017-06-02 05:34|| Front Page Top

#6 The result of decades of political corruption in Chicago. The "One" transferred the new and enhanced model to Washington. Now we know what "O" meant when he said amongst the faux Greek columns: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America” after the election in 2008.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-02 08:50|| 2017-06-02 08:50|| Front Page Top

#7 A lot of corporations quit doing work directly for the State of Illinois some time ago.

Seems they weren't getting paid or something.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-06-02 09:52|| 2017-06-02 09:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Meanwhile unfunded public pensions, a widespread state and city problem all over the USA, continues to get minimal MSM attention.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-06-02 13:21|| 2017-06-02 13:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Happier every day that we left Illinois in 2000.

Posted by Tom 2017-06-02 14:24|| 2017-06-02 14:24|| Front Page Top

#10 "Escape from Illinois?" A new movie?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-02 18:18|| 2017-06-02 18:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Number #1 to blame: Michael Madigan

Posted by 3dc 2017-06-02 19:34|| 2017-06-02 19:34|| Front Page Top

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