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Mendoza, Pritzker warn of budget cuts without federal money
The Center Square ^
| 8/4
| Greg Bishop
Posted on 08/05/2020 6:43:45 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
Some Illinois statewide officers are sounding the alarm about potential budget cuts amid the COVID-19 pandemic if the federal government doesn't provide additional money to states, but a public finance watchdog said its an opportune time for reforms to shore up spending in the state. ... There certainly will be significant cuts that will have to be made to life safety, to education, to so many things that I care really deeply about, Pritzker said. But this is going to be up to Congress. They're the ones who have the ability to help us.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budget; illinois; pritzker
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"life safety" and "education". It's always police, fire, and teachers first.
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:43:45 AM PDT
by
AT7Saluki
To: AT7Saluki
If you depend on your rich uncle sam to help you pay your water bill, you need to re-think your financial strategy.
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:45:41 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: AT7Saluki
Cutting police budgets doesn’t motivate voters anymore.
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:46:23 AM PDT
by
2banana
(Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
To: AT7Saluki
Mostly Peaceful Budget Cuts?
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:46:57 AM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(Polls are no longer designed to measure public sentiment but to influence it.)
To: AT7Saluki
This is your new, lower salary.
The old one will be restored when our revenue streams get back to normal.
I got a 10% salary reduction in 1984 because of the Bell breakup.
To: AT7Saluki
It’s always police, fire, and teachers first.
Well, they are already defuning police, and the kids are learning from home (two of my grandkids live there). So, what’s the problem?
Give the kids a khanacademy.org account, sell the cop cars at auction, and they’ll be good.
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:47:04 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
To: AT7Saluki
In response to gross financial mismanagement on the part of elected officials, Illinois voters will turn out in greater numbers to vote Democrat.
That will fix it.
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:50:14 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: AT7Saluki
Note to Mendoza and Pritzker: Fire up the chainsaw!
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
#4 - very good.
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:52:04 AM PDT
by
SkyPilot
("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
To: AT7Saluki
Sure, blame it all on
TRUMP.
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:52:26 AM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
To: AT7Saluki
Everybody else in the country is taking a budget cut, why shouldnt they?
To: cuban leaf
Boo Hoo for today’s teachers. Let Black Lives Matter feed them.
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:52:29 AM PDT
by
Herodes
To: AT7Saluki
It's always police, fire, and teachers first. When prodded about budget cuts I've had RATs ask me: Well....what are you willing to do without?"
My answer?
Oh, about 90% of your buddies, the do-nothing, overpaid bureaucRATs who actually work on RAT campaigns every other year....
AT THE TAXPAYER'S EXPENSE.
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:53:06 AM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month".)
To: AT7Saluki
Bail yourselves out, you dug the hole.
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:55:12 AM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: AT7Saluki
Go screw yourself, Governor Creosote.
L
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posted on
08/05/2020 6:55:39 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: AT7Saluki
“...They’re the ones who have the ability to help us.
Nope. Open up the state for business or suffer.
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posted on
08/05/2020 7:05:40 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: AT7Saluki
Sorry, Uncle Sugar says no!
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posted on
08/05/2020 7:11:00 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Lurker
Raise your own taxes to cover the losses.
To: AT7Saluki
Don’t worry, with $1-2 Trilion in further “stimulus” coming, I have no doubt Democrats will make sure a lot of that finds its way into IL teacher’s unions, city workers, and state pension funds.
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posted on
08/05/2020 7:17:53 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: AT7Saluki
It’s always public pensions and cadillac health bennies first.
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posted on
08/05/2020 7:18:45 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds.)
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