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Obama's Illinois Imploding
Townhall.com ^ | August 2011 | Jeff Carter

Posted on 08/25/2011 1:39:22 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Looks like the Chicago School of Bureaucratic Socialism had a bumper crop of students when You Lie was Professor there!

Yessiree! There is no stopping Chicago-style Debt-ocracy! Roll Debt Roll !

Greece’s bonds touched 26 % this morning, so the Illinois debt-o-crats had better get busy!

-— and moving into second place is Gov’nuh Brown-as-dirt - - — .

Oops, sorry. Debt-sport-fever kinda overwhelmed me, I guess.

Anyhoo, Professor You Lie should be very proud of his adopted home state ( what is so funny about that? Hilly, our Secretary of Statements is from Illinois and she adopted a State. ) - - - .

Where was I? Oh yes!

” Illinois has chosen to make the tough choices.
We all have to endure shared sacrifices.
I know that 89,000 workers collecting unemployment checks doesn’t sound like much.
But believe me every penny destroyed means another millimeter deeper in THE VALLY OF DEBT.
Although I require Airforce One to raise against the enemy tea drinkers, I do not consider AF1 to be a Corporate jet.
That is ridiculous! The largest business in the world in the world is not a business.”

I put that last part in quotes so Professor You Lie can quickly pull it out and add it to his Thank You Illinois speech. ( I know he is busy now wring the speech that he said he was going to write. At least that is what he said in his speeches in 3 States.)


21 posted on 08/25/2011 2:09:14 PM PDT by Graewoulf ( obamatrauma"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Kaslin

On top of all the idiocy that is going on here they’ve just approved a huge increase in the highway tolls. This will cost trucking companies millions.

These guys are idiots.


22 posted on 08/25/2011 2:10:50 PM PDT by thatjoeguy (Wind is just air, but pushier.)
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To: Lurker
....if you can make it to north central DuPage County....

DuPage is certainly no bastion of Conservatism. I saw Goldwater at Wheaton Central during his campaign, and when he left town, he was the last Conservative seen. The Combine is alive and well in f'd up DuPage. Incompetence and blindness are the two main traits of those in charge.

23 posted on 08/25/2011 2:12:41 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: Kaslin

What a surprise to learn that Maryland is NOT the most business-hostile state in the Union!


24 posted on 08/25/2011 2:20:57 PM PDT by In Maryland ("The Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers." -Justice Clarence Thomas)
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To: TheGrimReaper; SeaDragon

That graph says it all.


25 posted on 08/25/2011 2:21:20 PM PDT by RikaStrom (Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
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To: Kaslin

Illinois The Most Broke State in the Nation

http://www.wjbdradio.com/?f=news_single&id=28259


26 posted on 08/25/2011 2:22:21 PM PDT by mrsmith
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To: Lurker

Give me a jingle when that happens, my friend, and I’ll raise a wee dram or three of Bowmore as I exhale a fragrant cloud of expensive cigar smoke with ya.

It’s not as if we didn’t see it coming. It’s not as if we didn’t warn folks.

In a way, though, it reminds me of one of the final scenes in one of the “Guns of Navarone” movies: “Und nun... sitzen dich.”


27 posted on 08/25/2011 2:28:26 PM PDT by Noumenon (The only 'NO' a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)
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Great graph.


28 posted on 08/25/2011 2:30:09 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: colorado tanker

“But those idiots shouldn’t for one minute think the Democrats couldn’t do to Chicago what they did to Detroit.”

My neighbor just made the same observation to me....that Chicago is quickly becoming the next Detroit. And the voters will keep voting for the same dregs......


29 posted on 08/25/2011 2:39:20 PM PDT by Fu-fu2
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To: Lurker

Put out a lawn chair for me too. I’m in far South Lake County...maybe even further away from downtown?? Maybe you should be coming here! LOL


30 posted on 08/25/2011 2:42:38 PM PDT by battletank
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To: savagesusie

It’s not so much that they’re stupid. They may well be striking a contrarian pose, which is worse in my mind than being stupid. When you’re stupid, you can learn, but if you’re deceiving people just to get their attention, that’s vanity.


31 posted on 08/25/2011 3:01:45 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Kaslin

Illinois, save yourselves. Kick 0 to the curb.
Kick the dems to the curb.


32 posted on 08/25/2011 3:04:40 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Rabid democRATS and 0bama the dictator own it all now.)
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To: Kaslin

We keep hearing about these liberal $hithole states “imploding” but they still keep going, at least on the surface.

Show me a massive downsizing of their governmental overhead, or a large scale defualt on government “workers” pensions, and then I’ll know we are getting somewhere.


33 posted on 08/25/2011 3:06:10 PM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: Lurker

Sounds like a good party in the making.


34 posted on 08/25/2011 3:19:29 PM PDT by crz
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment
I’m sure the folks in Kenosha wouldn’t mind some new businesses. It may not be practical to move all the employees out of the state, but the commute from the Far North suburbs is actually quicker than going downtown.

Sorry to have to bust your bubble neighbor but:

Illinois corporate tax rate is currently at 7%, while Wisconsin's is currently at 7.9%.

35 posted on 08/25/2011 3:58:43 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The only problem some people have with tyranny is that theyÂ’re not the tyrant.)
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To: Lurker

Maybe jms can have his World War Z movie script shot live on location. Mind you, I lived in that town west of East St. Louis, plus the City of Windmills.


36 posted on 08/25/2011 4:00:56 PM PDT by bIlluminati (Don't just hope for change, work for change in 2011-2012.)
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To: Wpin
but i thought higher cigarette taxes were supposed to discourage smoking?
37 posted on 08/25/2011 4:20:23 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: crz; Lurker
How's about some hors d'oeuvres in Downers Grove on the way?

Leni

38 posted on 08/25/2011 4:49:55 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Too Bad Those of Us who Work for a Living Have to Support Those who Vote for a Living)
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To: thatjoeguy
Yeah, this morning the Illinois legislature passed a toll road fee increase of something like 82% !!!

Get this....a brave state rep made a motion to limit the raise to 20%....AND HE DIDN'T GET A SECOND!

EEK!

Leni

39 posted on 08/25/2011 4:55:45 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Too Bad Those of Us who Work for a Living Have to Support Those who Vote for a Living)
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To: Lurker

Might I suggest that 40 miles is still to close.

I am in the Quad Cities, and that might be to close. It is less than one tank of gas away.


40 posted on 08/26/2011 9:17:49 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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