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2019-09-22 Government
Cities across Illinois face pension shortfalls; some already cutting current services
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-22 02:29|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 Money doesn't grow on trees? You need deplorabales to produce it? There is a limit on how many parasites: welfare recipients, social workers, most teachers, all MBAs the economy can carry?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-22 02:46||   2019-09-22 02:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Politicians made promises for votes that anyone that was half way decent at math knew they couldn't keep. This falls on the voters who are now losing "services" there never was, is or will be money to provide regardless of what lying politicians promised.
Posted by Phaick Uneretle6310 2019-09-22 03:25||   2019-09-22 03:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Ref #2: Politicians made promises for votes that anyone that was half way decent at math knew they couldn't keep.

When the majority of your constituency are lottery ticket buyers, math is obviously not a factor.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-22 04:56||   2019-09-22 04:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Politicians and labor unions - two wolves negotiating how to cut up the sheep.

Unions funded politicians to make unsustainable contracts. Seems like a pretty clear case of conflict of interest to nullify any such agreement. I don't recall that any form of legitimate government can sell its citizens into involuntary servitude.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-22 07:02||   2019-09-22 07:02|| Front Page Top

#5 It was assumed by most that the crisis would be kicked far enough down the road that they would be dead by then; or, the feds would bail them out.
Posted by AlanC 2019-09-22 07:48||   2019-09-22 07:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Need border patrol down the Mississippi River...
Posted by Charles 2019-09-22 10:26||   2019-09-22 10:26|| Front Page Top

#7 My 'who's funding' conversation with public employees is usually dumbed down to to something they can understand....usually.

Imagine a table. On that table the businesses and folks who work in the private sector place a portion of their earnings for government use. This portion is called 'taxes'.

From that table, the government takes bits and pieces to fund their programs for the 'betterment of the community'. Some of those bits and pieces are wages and pensions for the folks who work in the government, who don't really 'pay' taxes.

This statement usually gets the public workers' hackles up and they counter with "We pay Taxes!", to which the response from me is "No, you 'leave' taxes. The money was never yours to begin with."

Hilarity ensues.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-09-22 11:00||   2019-09-22 11:00|| Front Page Top

#8 They’ll just end up taxing the people who left - and the rest of the country.
Posted by Glenmore  2019-09-22 18:24||   2019-09-22 18:24|| Front Page Top

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