Pay/Benefits Of Illinois State Workers Too Generous - Illinois New Governor.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Its the state employees who are responsible for the Illinois deficit. That is what you might believe based on recent statements of the new governor. Of he is a billionaire who made money on the state employees pension fund before he was governor. I grew up in Illinois and cannot believe they were so stupid to elect this asshole.

[MohRokTah]

1. Rauner makes more in a day than the vast majority of IL State Workers make in a year.

I told people, if you make 7 figures per year, Rauner's your guy, but if you don't make that much, you'll be voting against yourself.

Assholes don't listen, though. They believed the lies in the ads Rauner paid for.

[closeupready]

2. Thanks - is there a news link for this? I'd like to share it

with my numerous friends back in IL.

[TheMastersNemesis]

4. My OP Based On A News Feed From WCPT Radio. Chicago Progressive Radio.

I listen to this Chicago radio station on line from Westminster, Colorado after we lost our progressive station a few months ago. They have a short news broadcast that features Illinois news.

[lunasun]

10. WCPT IS A GREAT STATION OUR NEW GOV. NOT SO GREAT

[Cosmic Kitten]

3. He shows a pathological contempt for working people

[fadedrose]

5. You need another "o"

in "To" Generous. Took me a few seconds to figure out what you meant. Edit is easy..."Too" Generous..

[kelliekat44]

6. Two things to remember when learning of wages and benefits being cut for state workers.

1. State workers are consumers who spend and keep their local economies going. Too much of this cutting will all but destroy local economies much like closing military bases in certain districts.

2. State governments, like the Federal government are first line employers (or they were) for affirmative action that hired many women and minorities into good paying jobs. As such, the RW elected officials always make them targets for cuts.
That is why the GOP spend so much time denigrating state and federal employees.

And, i might add, most whistleblower cases across the board have been the result of the entrance of women and minorities in the ranks of management where they were able to see just where the fraud and abuse of government programs within various agencies was taking place. The "good ole boy" network established over the years within state and local governments was exposed by these newbies to the management workforce and the network hated it.

Admittance of women and minorities into the contracting and granting operations of state and federal agencies has been despised by the white male workforce used to operating without oversight from outside and within.

[Scuba]

7. Illinois only has one financial problem...

An unwillingness to tax the people who have all the money.

[raging moderate]

8. Note the arrogant assumption that everything belongs to the overlords.

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The new governor's comment obviously rests on the quite unquestioned assumption that workers are a sort of subhuman species who don't really need as much food or shelter as their rich overlords, that the poor are best motivated through punishment and the rich are best motivated through reward, that most people are lazy worthless parasites who should be grateful to their overlords for every crumb granted to them, that those with the financial power are superior beings who have the right to take the lion's share of what is produced together by us all and "give" it mostly to each other. The people of the State of Illinois have a steep learning curve just ahead of them. We have many voters here who think those little ballot initiatives constitute a binding mandate. For example, they may THINK they voted for an increase in the minimum wage, but, if they voted for Rauner, they voted against it.

[Half-Century Man]

9. Well, that didn't take long.

When people elect successful parasites to office they should expect them to act like parasites.

Stop mixing business with government.
Stop mixing money with government.
wolf-pac.com

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. Rauner literally bought off the press last election. And I do mean 'literally.'

A lot of work was put into stopping him including a massive effort by Dems to crossover in the primary and vote against him. But at some point money talks and shit walks-- all the way to Springfield.

Now he's buying legislators. He's put up a 20 million dollar or so fund (actually it might be 20 of his own money plus more from some of his cronies) that will make campaign contributions to state senators and reps that get with his program.
I guess it's legal but it stinks of unethical.