[dr_lew]

Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration says a pending move by Illinois’ largest public-pension fund would increase the state’s required payment by hundreds of millions of dollars, potentially leading to higher taxes or massive cuts to education and social services already suffering amid a budget crisis.

I hope we all see the unspoken premise here: That the one and only absolute necessity, invincible to compromise, is that the vast army of retired teachers be remunerated at their promised rate, whether it bleed the state, and the heavens, dry, or not.

[hal ogen]

Obviously their “leaders” are criminal subhuman garbage.

[Mr. Douglas]

The more a taxpayer in the state has to lose, the sooner they will leave the state. It really will get that bad, and I suspect many have left.