Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

By Kerry Lear - May 25, 2016 - The Post/Punching Bag Media

Illinois Is Broke And It's Not Because of The Taxpayers


Illinois’ Governor Bruce Rauner is well aware that the state is struggling financially. He admitted to the state public employee union AFSCME, that the state is completely broke. But, this isn’t because the state is funneling money to serve the public. The salaries and pensions of the state’s politicians and workers is costing the public $8 billion a year.

According to Forbes, roughly 50,000 public employees earn at least a six-figure salary including…

18,900 teachers and school administrators.

9,000 university and college employees, specifically Dr. Fady Toufic Charbel of the University of Illinois makes $1.38 million a year.

8,838 Illinois state employees.

5,122 small-town and city employees. 72 of these are municipal managers who make more than every governor in the 50 states with a salary of $180,000 a year.

5,007 City of Chicago managers and workers.

These are not including the pensions either. 1 million public employees are receiving a pension check.

Some officials are taking advantage of the system by collecting their pension, while taking on a new high paying role, like former state representative Roger Eddy who is now the Executive Director of Illinois Association of School Boards. Former Governor Jim Edgar did the same thing when he collected a pension of more than $2 million, while also working from 2000-2013 at the University of Illinois for $2.25 million yearly salary.

President Obama is all too familiar with this system. He served on the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004 before being elected into the United States Senate.

But again, politicians aren’t the only ones reaping the state’s benefits. Suburban schools in the state have 1,170 educators with $100,000 salaries and even 1,000 water district employees make over $100,000 a year. Not to mention, Governor Rauner just hired his wife a personal assistant for $100,000 a year, even though she has no official government duties. Obviously, he isn’t that concerned about the “poor funding” in the state.

So how is the state funding these high salaries and pensions? Well, the property taxes of the state are the highest in the entire nation.

Editor's Note: This is what unions can do to you. Can't really blame Scott Walker for breaking the unions in Wisconsin.

http://punchingbagpost.com/illinois-is-broke-and-its-not-because-of-the-taxpayers

son of witless

Illinois is like California and Puerto Rico. The employee unions run the state and the taxpayer is at the very bottom of the pecking order.

Radiance3

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All cities grossly populated by blacks and run by black people are bankrupt and violent. They are greedy and corrupt. They hire so many black employees duplicating their jobs just like the WH that hired so many federal employees as reported by GAO in 2010. They are found out to have overlapping jobs that are already in the position of other black people. They are paid over a $100,000 annually. Fact is Washington DC has the highest paid employees in the nation.

In New Jersey before Chris Christie took over as governor, the state was so bankrupt. Christie had fixed so much problems in NJ. The black officials in Jersey city alone before Christie came, are having double jobs and double salaries. The school system under water, kids could not read and write, while so many teachers are teaching the kids this song "Barrack Hussein Obama" ohm.., ohm.., ohm..! as they wave their bodies and arms back and forth in the classroom everyday. That was in 2009. The cities were bankrupt, while the black elected officials are raking double salaries from their public jobs.

Baltimore is another failed black city. Since 1948, it has been run by black leaders. Their kids still don't know how to read and write. The federal government bailed out this city a number of times, taxpayers spent billions of dollars in order to alleviate the flight of the black kids but nothing happened until now. Thugs still on the streets, lawlessness prevail on the streets, like the city of Chicago.

New FBI Crime Figures Confirm: Black Towns Most Dangerous.

Democrats run the cities with the highest violent crime rates – Rare
rare.us/story/democrats-run-the-cities-with-the-highest-violent-crime-rates/
Jun 4, 2015 - 16 of the 20 highest violent crime cities have Democratic mayors. ... that the cities with the highest crime rates are nearly all run by Democrats. ... Of the top 20 cities on Neighborhood Scout's 2015 list.

bahmer

Bruce Rauner needs to do the same thing that Walker did in Wisconsin but I believe that there are too many democrats fighting him for this to happen. I sure wish him all the luck in the world though.

Carol Kelly

Something has to change. Union bosses paid more than CEOs, and out of whose pockets?The taxpayers and the little guy picking feathers off the chickens on the line. They've out-
lived their usefulness and should have been dead an d buried long ago. Let's get rid of all the hangers on, the users, the bleeders. America has built up a plethora of these and they're bringing us to our knees.

Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

It will take a major upheaval to change America to a true free society again...

The Left will fight just like the paid protesters of today... Don D.


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tugboat

Not positive who pays school union jobs.I'm a union steel worker. Our union people are paid from the dues of the workers.No outside expense to others.Nowadays unions seem to benefit the turds who can't come to work or stay off drugs and alcohol, etc.I can't believe the money that gets thrown around in Illinois. That state is so corrupt it's sickening. How these politicians can hold a job for a few years and collect lifetime benefits is wrong when blue collar people work most of their lives only to be screwed out of things they were promised.

Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

The Union idea is great, the leadership of many Unions are as corrupt as the politicians and Mafia... Don D.


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tugboat

I can't argue that. My company would try to pay us $5 an hour if they could.Unions did a lot of things years ago that stopped companies from slave labor and workplace safety.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Let us not forget that there once was a time when unions protected their craft by getting rid of poor performers and laggards themselves. Today the majority of unions are worker protection agencies and that is especially so for government employees. Teacher's unions need to be severely restricted and investigated if not abolished altogether.

Carol Kelly

I'm with you on teacher unions, nurses unions, etc. and there was a time when they were a very useful tool. But I believe that time is past. The workers are smart enough to do their own negotiating. If they can fill out an income tax form, they've got to be intelligent enough to do some negotiations.

bahmer

That one simple thing of getting rid of unions could bring back companies to the USA. That coupled with lowering corporate income taxes both would help tremendously. The democrats have to learn that corporations do not pay taxes it is the consumer who pays and the lower the tax rate the better the cost for the consumers if your company is in the USA and you pay high corporate taxes then you go to a foreign nation and set up shop to lower your taxes and lower the cost of your product.

Don G. Dinsdale Loc: El Cajon, CA (San Diego County)

True... But the Left is so worried about owners making a profit they would rather tax the companies out of here... Don D.

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bahmer

I doubt that today we could even fight WWII. All of our assembly and manufacturing plants are in other countries. So is our steel plants and machining facilities. Almost all of our electronics are imported as well. Could we even build ships and planes and tanks by what our borders encompass?

Carol Kelly

Pretty certain you're right. We couldn't get two countries to agree on anything and next year they'll all be dominated by Muslims. Maybe even this one! Just because the entire. Nation is in Trumps corner and votes for him is no guarantee anymore.