State Sen. Jason Plummer/FOX: Americans broadly support federal relief for businesses and workers, but they don’t want to bail out failed business models and corporate corruption. So how would they feel about bailing out the governance failures of America’s most corrupt state?
Welcome to Illinois, America’s shrinking state, home to 1,000 public corruption convictions in the last 20 years. Our acquisitive state politicians want over $40 billion from other states in a brazen attempt to spread the Illinois model beyond our borders.
My Democratic state Senate colleagues garnered national attention with a letter containing this audacious request. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has separately requested billions in federal funds. The message from Illinois’ elected leaders is crystal clear: no humility, no regrets, no acknowledgment of failures, and no strings attached. American Taxpayers – bail us out!
Don’t let it happen. Federal dollars should not prop up Illinois’ failed system.
Sober-minded Illinoisans have long warned that the next economic wind would topple our financial house of cards. However, our leaders had other priorities. Pritzker took to the lectern for his 2020 State of the State address declaring Illinois strong and dismissing fiscal realists as “carnival barkers” and “doomsayers,” receiving thunderous approval from his allies. Now the entire nation knows we’re broke and these same politicians are pleading for a bailout. read more
1,000 public corruption convictions….tip of the iceberg
A brave man. Wish there were more of them.
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The sciency science people are all joyous over Gilead’s new drug that’s supposed to do the trick. Fauci talks it up, even though it is an UNPROVEN drug. Interesting how he would talk up an unproven drug, eh?
But here’s the really good part. The Lancet, one of the most respected medical journals is also simultaneously reporting that a study shows that Gilead’s new drug shows NOOOOOO benefit.
So the sciency science people are in a lather to shove down our throats a drug that only half the two studies says is any good at all and that will require the fda to give a ‘fast approval’.
2 questions
1 is anyone surprised?
2 what could go wrong?
Illinois should just print their own state currency. No bailout required and it fixes pension shortfalls. It wouldn’t be beyond the goofs running the show.
This are the words of a statesman
I bet he is from southern Illinois
A few interesting facts (from memory)
– There are over 100,000 state employees receiving (not earning) over $100,000 per year – some make $Millions
– There are over 100,000 state retirees receiving over $100,000 per year in pension payments
– Pension liabilities amount to $65,000 for each person in Illinois
– Illinois has raised taxes multiple times and end up in greater debt every time
Mr. Anth Ropy – Just what the Democrats want for all of America.
Pritzker,
Kiss my ass
Illinois translated is BLACK HOLE.
illinois commie-parasite-sjw-dindus: BIOOYMFA
“– There are over 100,000 state employees receiving (not earning) over $100,000 per year – some make $Millions
– There are over 100,000 state retirees receiving over $100,000 per year in pension payments
– Pension liabilities amount to $65,000 for each person in Illinois”
that’s it in a nut shell isn’t it???
So, lemme see if I got this right: There’s not one democrat in the state who does not know you can’t spend your way out of bankruptcy?
I’m from NY – apparently financial waste has leached into quite a few States.
Illinois State Senator Plummer DIDN’T hang himself.