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From Clint Bolick at the Hoover Institute: The union officials who negotiate lavish contracts for government workers are paid with your taxpayer dollars. By now it is well-known that public employee contracts with generous…
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What? No! Speaking of which — if you have ever wondered why most of the political contributions from Wall Street go to the Democrats here’s part of the explanation: they share the same value…
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This recent controversy cracks me up. Howard Zinn was a dishonest crank. From the Daily Caller: Mitch Daniels is defending his push to prevent Howard Zinn’s nonsense history from being taught to public school…
Read MoreMoody’s has downgraded the credit ratings of 9 IL universities. Friday’s downgrades affect the University of Illinois, Eastern Illinois University, Governors State University, Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University and Western Illinois University….
Read MoreI have been doing this too long. Writing about Pension Scams I mean. Nothing surprises me anymore as political corruption envelopes everything that happens in Illinois. Jesse Jackson’s fate is just the latest example….
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It’s for the kids, right? Wrong. And there’s no question that public school administrators and teachers could care less about the future of education funding. They want theirs, period. From the NCAP: The costs…
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The Drudge Report (see picture) brought this to my attention. Amazing, simply amazing — especially in light of recent news articles like this one. Imagine if George W. Bush took this many vacations. From…
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The unemployment rate isn’t dropping. Government and the political spinners lie (as if we didn’t already know that). Here is an excerpt from one article and a link to two others. First, from Michael…
Read MoreFrom the Heritage Foundation: Detroit is just one of many local and state governments that are broke. Next in line: Illinois. Unlike Detroit, changes in the manufacturing industry will not contribute to the demise…
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Not all the instances involve numbers this big but make no mistake, theft (legal and illegal) at the local government level is rampant across the country. From the Education Action Group: We’d like to…
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From Steven Malanga — and note the second paragraph. Illinois’ situation when it comes to pensions is far worse. The city of Detroit has been in economic decline for decades. For much of that…
Read MoreEvery Illinois state politician needs to take a look at pension costs relative to other state especially those adjoining Illinois. That is because the adjoining states are where many businesses and wealthy people are…
Read MoreIt’s called good planning. Legalized corruption. Hmmm…let’s see: if the legislators and the judges are being bought off, where exactly will the solution come from? Ted Dabrowski of the Illinois Policy Institute doesn’t use…
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If this doesn’t make people angry nothing will. From the NCPA: Congress may let student loan interest rates double July 1, but some federal workers and congressional staff likely are protected from the impact…
Read MoreBy Jack Roeser and Bill Zettler As we listen to the endless cries of “We need pension reform” emanating from Springfield it is easy to assume that the proposals being bandied about will actually…
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