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Illinois Has Stopped Paying Bills Even For Essential Services
The Business Insider ^ | 7-5-2010 | Vincent Fernando, CFA

Posted on 07/05/2010 4:25:43 AM PDT by blam

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To: usconservative

Obama will find a way to use the SLUSH FUND to bail out a number of large states from their budget problems. He will look like a great hero to them just in time for the ‘12 election and get himself re-elected.


21 posted on 07/05/2010 7:53:17 AM PDT by abenaki (It CAN happen here.)
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To: RightOnline

It appears that every government entity in Du Page Illinois has a health center?

All that is need is a street to run, walk or bike on!
Too hard on the feet? Do laps in the park.


22 posted on 07/05/2010 8:03:57 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: OldPossum
You missed an opportunity to rant at the usual university bias towards Democrats Kind Sir, that would be a mistake to make that assumption! (grins)
23 posted on 07/05/2010 8:07:25 AM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: usconservative

they are also some of the worst “double dippers” with regards to public pensions:

Padded Pensions Add to New York Fiscal Woes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2518552/posts

Double-dipping state and local employees collect paycheck and a pension

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2538387/posts

Why state pension funds may need a $1 trillion bailout
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2518753/posts

to avoid bankruptcy, no public employee union should be sacrosanct.


24 posted on 07/05/2010 11:02:54 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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To: raybbr
Daniel W. Hynes (Democrat) is serving his third term as State Comptroller

He is the son of Thomas Hynes, a former Cook County assessor, president of the Illinois Senate and Democratic Ward committeeman of the 19th ward in Chicago, Illinois.

In 2004 Hynes was an unsuccessful candidate in the Democratic primary election for his party's nomination for the United States Senate, finishing second to State Senator Barack Obama

Hynes challenged Governor Pat Quinn for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois, formally announcing his campaign on September 2, 2009.

After a close vote, on February 4, 2010, Dan Hynes conceded to Governor Quinn and pledged his support to Quinn in the general election

Hynes vowed to fix the state's pension system by rooting out abuses, including double dipping, Quinn accused his rival's father, Tom Hynes, of taking multiple pensions stemming from his various jobs as a longtime state legislator and former Cook County assessor.

He managed President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election in the state

Lawyer Matthew Hynes, a brother, was Al Gore's Illinois campaign manager in 2000.

Hynes was a health care attorney for a Chicago law firm

"We can't cut (taxes/spending) our way out of this," Hynes said.

25 posted on 07/05/2010 11:20:59 AM PDT by kcvl
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