I figured that as the economies cratered those who think they are owed *services* would take to the streets.
Yep, the leaches are in the streets.....
>>Chanting people first not politics, they supported a state income tax hike instead of doomsday cuts. Vital services for kids, seniors, the disabled and the homeless are about to be cut in half.<<
Maybe I was wrong. Maybe it will be Chicago before California.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYnJiiLGwjY
The peasants should be silent and die.
Wow. Never thought I’d see the day that people would be taking to the streets chanting “Tax us more! Tax us more!”
>>”I would support a tax hike,” Richard Bedard said. <<
Although I understand his plight, since he is a “tax recipient”, why am I not surprised.
Once the tax crisis becomes real to people, and not just rhetoric from governors that they don’t have money, things are gonna get really ugly. I thought Ca would be first. I may have been wrong.
“A child living with Down syndrome or autism requires special therapies, sometimes special education. That’s why something like the Illinois Family Assistance Program was a big help to Cathy and Richard Bedard and their three kids with special needs.
“It’s very costly to raise children who have developmental disabilities,” Cathy Bedard said.”
1. It is not MY job to raise YOUR kids.
2. Maybe you shoulda stopped after the first one if it was too damn difficult for you.
Mr. Bedard, you are a leech. Please allow me to say this to you just as politely as I can:
F*** you.
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uptoolate lives in the southern suburbs of Chicago. A couple of years ago he refinanced his mortgage to put on a new roof, build a garage, add central air, remodel the kitchen and pave the driveway. He is married with three children, all of them special needs. A 15 year old son has Juvenile Diabetes, a 9 year old son has CVS (Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome), and they have adopted a 16 year old daughter with Sickle Cell and an STD contracted by her previously adoptive father and his son. Mrs. uptoolate stays at home to raise the kids in the righteousness and admonition of the Lord. All the kids are homeschooled.
When the economy tanked, it came at a time when they were putting up their house for sale. With the recent refinance and home improvements, they were not going to make a killing on it, but the improvements would help the home sell.
Now they are “underwater”. With great prayer, they managed to find a Christian family who was in a great need to rent a house for their family of five. This allowed uptoolate and his family to move in with his in-laws. His Father-In-Law is an amputee, suffering also from COPD, and his Mother-In-Law suffers from Alzheimer’s. Now uptoolate finds himself supporting a family of seven, five of them special needs, on a truck driver’s salary.
They are now fixing up the In-Law’s house, where they have built two extra bedrooms in the basement, so they can sell that one and move to the Great State of Texas where they have more family who can help.
During all of this, uptoolate has never been a burden on his fellow neighbor. He has never asked his neighbor for money. All he has done is humbly asked his Savior to help take care of them all - and He has.
But one wonders what would become of uptoolate and his special needs family if he were to have to pay 50% more in taxes.
I wonder if CBS would print this story?
Probably not, doesn’t fit the mold.
Sounds like they have their priorities mixed up.
Perhaps Illinois could lead the nation by requiring proof of citizenship prior to receiving any state aid. They could enact this next Monday and possibly save most of the programs they are prepared to cut. OR - they could fire every 5th affirmative-action chair-warmer at every state office and Illinois would probably go into 2010 with a surplus.
They thought protesting and “activism” were jobs. :)
Deport illegal aliens. This will save hundreds of millions. Lib Dem states are toilets of unemployment, corruption and misery. The GOP needs to point that out every day. “This is what failure and misery are.”
Stop the corruption in Chicago and you could fund everything.
See if Obama’s friends (Rezko, Auchi, Ayers, Wright) can pitch in some money for the poor. Wright’ new home could house many families. Bill Ayer’s late father was rich as could be; let’s get that money for the poor.
The Daley’s are up to their neck in corruption. Seize their assets. Schakowsky’s a commie - she doesnt’ need any money. Seizure her congressional salary and perks. That would feed and house a block of poor people for a year.
How about taking back the extortion money that the Rev. Jesse Jackson ripped off from “big businesses”? That ain’t chump change. An audit of the books of Operation Push, Breadbasket and the Rainbow Coalition should show some very interesting donations (rubles, anyone?).
The list could go on forever. Rahm Emanuel could sell his ballet tutu for charity. That might bring in a dollar-fifty.
More scandals coming re Chicago/Illinois politics. Fine the bastards and give it to the poor, where it was ripped off from in the first place.
NO MONEY FOR ACORN: ONLY JAIL!
I was surprised to discover that this wasn't California, although the whines of the welfare pets and the public employees (the other welfare) are identical.
People first? Unless they're taxpayers who don't get their income directly from the government?
Doomsday cuts? That is hilarious.
Retirees took income cuts of between 25 and 50 percent. Other workers in private industry lost their jobs altogether. Is suggesting a 10% across the board cut in state expenditures a greater Doomsday scenario?
Give me a break!
If we listen carefully, we can hear the taxpayers, the non-government employees and the real workers who have never exploited children for their income and sustenance shouting loud and clear: If we don't have the income, if we are losing our homes, we can't pay increased taxes with money we don't have.
At the same time, the noble legislatures have formulated budgets for the next fiscal year that actually contain increases for all the usual squeaky wheels for whom reality doesn't apply. I'm sure that would include Illinois.
I know it is true in California.
The reality-free zones...
Looks like you guys have your work cut out for you to pull out more people with your own “Chicago Tea Party” to swamp these guy..!
Chicago should be mounting counter protests with taxpayers, chanting "Cut the taxes, cut the spending!".