Posted on 04/29/2020 6:52:58 AM PDT by knighthawk
Americans broadly support federal relief for businesses and workers, but they don’t want to bail out failed business models and corporate corruption. So how would they feel about bailing out the governance failures of America’s most corrupt state?
Welcome to Illinois, America’s shrinking state, home to 1,000 public corruption convictions in the last 20 years. Our acquisitive state politicians want over $40 billion from other states in a brazen attempt to spread the Illinois model beyond our borders.
My Democratic state Senate colleagues garnered national attention with a letter containing this audacious request. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has separately requested billions in federal funds. The message from Illinois’ elected leaders is crystal clear: no humility, no regrets, no acknowledgment of failures, and no strings attached. American Taxpayers – bail us out!
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hey Illinois, pound sand there liberal failure.New York, same population as Florida. Three times government spending.
Illinois even worse.
Kind of like calling in an artillery strike on your forward base when you’re being overrun by the enemy.
Correlation be studied, its virtually all the states run by libtard Dems that need bailouts, correct me if I am wrong. GG.
Agree. Best thing to happen would be to flush out Ilinois corruption by killing the cash cow.
When Democrat Governors use Taxpayer money to create Sanctuary cities, something has to give. NY & NJ are slow rolling reopening regions of their states with little or no Covid issues. Stalling in hopes of a Federal Bailout it appears. NY had a several million $ Budget deficit in December As Cuomo now pays out 3 billion so far in unemployment with the meter running. Lots of scams happening here in NY as everyone is now listed as dying from Covid without ever being tested..Using inflated death count to lock the state down until May 15th for just phase 1 of 3 phase plan..ridiculous..
Soon Illinois will be missing two more. My wife and I are retired and using our isolation time to cyber shop a new home. The state just keeps getting worse. We’ll be taking fairly substantial assets with us. In the meantime our small town is being taken over by illegal aliens.
If you’re going to post something like this how about listing the background like the district the pol is from.
What he’s really talking about is bailing out sanctuary states and cities which when this issue comes up the media buried.
If you’re going to post something like this how about listing the background like the district the pol is from.
Ditto here. Our kids have settled in another state, and we're not far behind.
Illinois' Demonrats have failed to fund their own political retirement system; promised more and more, and done nothing to back it up.
Tax and spend, spend, spend.
Adios, mofo's.
I think Illinois ranks 50th in financial health of all the states. (For Obama followers, that's 50th out of 50, not 50th out of 57.) It's better here in Kentucky; we're only 47th. Kentucky has had a Democrat governor for 92 of the last 100 years, or thereabouts.
Yeah and this clown Cuomo thinks The Donald is foolish enough to bankroll his states foolish spending by taxing folks from other states?
Could someone tell us about Senator Plummer? He sounds sane...
From orbit! Take out Springfield and Chicago to save the State of Illinois.
Sure it is. That's the problem.
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