The argument is right but whoever wrote this needs to pick up a newspaper and realize that this IS what Gov. Rauner is trying to do, right now. We’re in the 4th week of a budget standoff where he is refusing to give in to the Democrat-controlled legislature that is refusing all of the reforms that Gov. Walker implemented in Wisc. Rauner has already agreed to forgo some of them for now in favor of getting some of the most critical changes but the Democrats think they can wait him out and public opinion will force him to give in. Of course they are blind to the fact that all that will do is continue the status quo, which is horrible, even though it perpetuates their phoney-baloney jobs and their control of power in the state.
Walker had a Republican legislature to help fight for change and the only thing the Democrats could do is fleebag it to Illinois to delay the vote. Our DemocRATs are already here, and the only exterminator in the house is Bruce Rauner.
Rauner is no Scott Walker. He is a pro-abort, entrenched interest friendly tool. Even if he were a Scott Walker, the legislature is worse than worthless, poisoned by Combine politics.
Sadly, Rauner has a supermajority rat legislature and a state constitution that says pensions can’t be cut.
Needs to, but are not gonna. Never happen in Illinois.
[Rauner should take a lesson from Illinois’ neighbor to the north.]
Doesn’t Walker have a Republican majority in the State House?
Illinois is filled with life-term Democrats.
Big difference.
One of the big problems the Democrats in Illinois face is that the state is surrounded on three sides by right-to-work states. Eventually, it may dawn on the voters in Illinois (as it did in deep-blue Wisconsin) that the unions and the state government have run out of the great socialist slush fund, Other People's Money.