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Om no. If you think you can put all of this on one party, I have news for you 5:37. Jim Edgar started this by not properly funding the pension systems. Had they done so over the years, this problem would not exist as it does today. Sticking to stupid party lines on this is so short-sighted and foolish. BOTH parties are complicit in short-sighted policies focused on the next election and not the big picture. Falling along party lines makes you part of the problem, not part of the solution.
5:37 PM Blaming all those who vote for the Democratic candidate for the Illinois flee is a interesting concept but I do not completely agree. Both parties have candidates who express their true beliefs when campaigning and once elected vote strictly along party lines. Both parties have incumbents with hidden reasons for voting the way they do and also make inferior appointments. Both parties have incumbents who will vote against a very good idea simply because it is brought up by the other party. I feel no need of going on as I do not believe I'm telling something that all of you don't already know.
They used the pension system to balance the budget and enable gifts in the form of grants for pet projects to legislators. At the time they thought that the system would be replenished with funding from taxes and interest rates that were high at the time.
We have not had a Republican Party in Illinois since before World War II. Edger was not a Republican - he was a RINO! To this day, the Illinois Republican Party is essentially defunct. In fact - Madigan has to go out and create candidate to run against the Democrat Machine just so the newspapers have something to print.
11:28 that is fine if that is what you believe but it further validates the point that you need to stop with the venom about how it is all the "Dems" fault, as I think you like to say.
As a conservative it is people like you (from what I can tell) that have ruined our party. Ronald Reagan would never even be nominated by the wack job tea partiers. That is what is killing our party.
Unless today you would suggest that a former Democrat and Hollywood actor turned moderate conservative from Illinois and later California would be your choice for a Republican Presidential nominee?
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"Illinois has become the Midwest’s leading producer of economic refugees, and the No. 1 exporter of talent."
You know who we have to blame for this? All you people that vote for the big D next to a candidates name!
Um no
12:40 - um yes.
Om no. If you think you can put all of this on one party, I have news for you 5:37. Jim Edgar started this by not properly funding the pension systems. Had they done so over the years, this problem would not exist as it does today. Sticking to stupid party lines on this is so short-sighted and foolish. BOTH parties are complicit in short-sighted policies focused on the next election and not the big picture. Falling along party lines makes you part of the problem, not part of the solution.
5:37 PM
Blaming all those who vote for the Democratic candidate for the Illinois flee is a interesting concept but I do not completely agree.
Both parties have candidates who express their true beliefs when campaigning and once elected vote strictly along party lines.
Both parties have incumbents with hidden reasons for voting the way they do and also make inferior appointments.
Both parties have incumbents who will vote against a very good idea simply because it is brought up by the other party.
I feel no need of going on as I do not believe I'm telling something that all of you don't already know.
9:34
They used the pension system to balance the budget and enable gifts in the form of grants for pet projects to legislators. At the time they thought that the system would be replenished with funding from taxes and interest rates that were high at the time.
9:34, um yes.
We have not had a Republican Party in Illinois since before World War II. Edger was not a Republican - he was a RINO! To this day, the Illinois Republican Party is essentially defunct. In fact - Madigan has to go out and create candidate to run against the Democrat Machine just so the newspapers have something to print.
I agree with the um no Right to work cuts workers from good pay and even bad benefits Its a joke for the right wing agenda
Right to Work and government service consolidation is the only thing that will save Illinois.
11:28 that is fine if that is what you believe but it further validates the point that you need to stop with the venom about how it is all the "Dems" fault, as I think you like to say.
As a conservative it is people like you (from what I can tell) that have ruined our party. Ronald Reagan would never even be nominated by the wack job tea partiers. That is what is killing our party.
Unless today you would suggest that a former Democrat and Hollywood actor turned moderate conservative from Illinois and later California would be your choice for a Republican Presidential nominee?
Didn't think so! And that's truly too bad.
5:40 - Reagan was a gun grabber. I support the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. I am against anyone that does not.
Illinois operates under a one party system. That party is the party of Chicago.
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