Posted on 10/18/2019 6:11:53 PM PDT by george76
The best thing that could happen to East St. LOUIS is if it burned down.
Much of America, particularly the blue bits, need a good bout with insolvency.
Politics will not change otherwise
East St. Louis hoods => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMnDLoBLolk
The newspapers in Tulsa debated this throughout my youth in the Sixties and Seventies, with the more conservative paper (Tulsa Tribune) predicting that mathematically it would have to end disastrously and the leftwing - although they would seem almost conservative by today’s standards - paper (Tulsa World) boldly predicting that miracles of technology undreamed or increasing efficiency would somehow magically make money to pay the retirements on all these government employee that were being hired.
Here we are.
No surprise who turned out to be right.
Save nine million by laying off nine firefighters?
Bump
Thanks, ‘Rats.
Chicago has 420 billion dollars in long-term debt...
the old farts get the fat pension and the tax payers pay increasingly odorous taxes to support the fat pensions....
if the people on fat pensions want the young workers and the tax payers to suffer, they've accomplished it...
#22 Is that city hall?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3782158/posts
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CAGW Names Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker September 2019 Porker of the Month
Citizens Against Government Waste ^ | September 2019 | Citizens Against Government Waste
Posted on 9/28/2019, 10:14:46 PM by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker (D) September 2019 Porker of the Month for signing a $40.1 billion budget without any spending restraints and $1.4 billion in pork-barrel projects.
223.9 billion shortfall, which breaks down to a debt burden of $52,600 per taxpayer. The state has $6 billion in unpaid bills and the lowest credit rating of any state in the country. Its unfunded pension liability tops $130 billion. Illinois taxpayers are so saddled with debt, taxes, corrupt local government, and dwindling middle-class jobs that 157,000 residents have left over the past five years.
Durbin pushes HIB work permits for India workers
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Gov OK’s queer equity education
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fyi
East St Louis has a highway system built by Democrat Communists. All roads enter centrally into the city for maximum concentration. It is a mess.
Communism, and crime is an added benefit.
It was the firefighter and the cop who drove up the insane and unsustainable costs of these pensions, and it was their corrupt and greedy unions who bribed and extorted corrupt politicians to pass them, despite being unable to possibly fund them with available revenue. It is absolutely just that cops and firefighters are the ones to be fired, along with the scummy bureaucrats and politicians. This house of cards is collapsing around the country.
Good.
i had numerous ESL encounters back in the late ‘60s. worked in swansea and lived in caseyville. used to hit some pretty rough joints along bunkum rd. on the way to downtown ESL. i’ve forgotten as much as possible ... glad i did. bailed to far west STL burbs in ‘70.
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