Hey Illinois - It's 1:15 am Sunday morning and your General Assembly just voted themselves a pay raise (as part of another unbalanced budget). Our voters are hurting, our businesses are closing, people are struggling left and right...and the GA - which has been MIA for 8 weeks - decided to pay themselves more. The priorities of the majority party...The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. -Thomas Jefferson
Re: From Jason Plummer
Posted by Wally Bunker on May 24, 2020, 4:54 pm, in reply to "From Jason Plummer"
Dave, and the response to this is crickets, because the ones at fault are Democrats. Since they cant even defend this, they simply ignore it, and wait for Trump to tweet again.
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Posted by Riverbender on May 24, 2020, 9:26 pm, in reply to "From Jason Plummer"
The state workers were given raises recently as well.
Trump says he will never again shut the country down, and I don’t blame him for doing so in this case because every prominent “expert” in the CDC and the media said it was the thing that had to be done…yada, yada, yada. The reality was, he had no choice as every death (regardless of cause) would have been attributed to Trump and no president could have withstood that media driven onslaught.
Isn’t it amazing how we can’t even get a truly accurate count on who gets counted as a CV-19 death? The ghouls who ran this sham are using so many different criteria to count deaths. If someone was dying of terminal cancer, but was thought (thought, often not even confirmed) to have been infected, it was listed as a CV-19 death. When hospitals have been incentivized to call a death, any death, a CV-19 death, gee, do you think we will get an inflated death toll? I know if ‘the One’ had been president, the exact opposite would be the case and he would be a hero for “saving” all of us. Again, yada, yada, yada. Hell, he would have given himself the Medal of Freedom.
The real tragedy in all this is that few people will ever trust anything anyone says about any new event – CV-20 anyone? This leaves us dangerously vulnerable to a real No-Schiff Emergency; look how many people disregard hurricane warnings since virtually every one gets dramatized as the “storm of the century” – then when a Katrina hits, buses get flooded, and everyone is trapped…
The Rahm Emmanuel model of not letting any “crisis” go to waste will backfire on the Dems in this case because it is becoming more and more apparent to any clear thinking (keep the pot and liquor stores open to impede clear thinking) person that this “crisis” was amped up for at least two main reasons: Hurt the economy (Maher said we need a depression to get rid of Trump) to hurt Trump – the people be dammed, and to give the Dems an opportunity for a major power grab – a test case to see how much the people will tolerate. There are many other secondary reasons like being able to keep Biden sequestered (but he still can’t be kept totally quiet) and whitewash the whole fixing of the Democratic nomination ‘process’.
If ever there is another national shutdown, every government worker, and media person should have their pay cut by the same percentage that such a shutdown causes to the unemployment numbers. In this case, if there is 20% unemployment, then every government worker gets a 20% pay cut so they can “Feel the Pain”. After all, We’re All In This Together”. Aren’t we?
Another alternative would be to do another government shutdown of “ALL NON Essential workers” just like the private sector’s “non essential” workers and business. Schools, closed, no need for the Department of Education; Pollution greatly reduced, no need for the EPA; Fuel usage much less, no need for the Department of Energy; CDC screwed up royally and doesn’t have a “vaccine” in advance (after all, they are supposed to be the brilliant unassailable wizards who are supposed to be in charge of protecting Americans from diseases), no need for the CDC. Let the state’s medical “experts” deal with it, since they are usurping unconstitutional power, from “CDC Guidance”. Hell, we could probably permanently disestablish a dozen or more useless federal and state government agencies since CV-19 has proven we can ‘live’ without them for months if not years as some have suggested.
this “crisis” was amped up for at least two main reasons: Hurt the economy (Maher said we need a depression to get rid of Trump) to hurt Trump
You left out a third one - to keep the heat off Obamagate.If you don't read the papers, you're uninformed. If you read the papers, you're misinformed. - Mark Twain
They were always going to just ignore Obamagate, 95% of the media anyway. These Blue state Governors are themselves being Governed, not that they arent all in to destroy what they can of the economy. They have no problem whatsoever doing that.
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Posted by 3Dee on May 25, 2020, 9:17 am, in reply to "From Jason Plummer"
Bad apples in every bunch and Madigan .... desperately.... needs. to. go. Yesterday. When you ban books before you ban guns, you've admitted that you're more afraid of children learning than you are of children dying.
99% of politicians at every level need to go. People from the private sector need to man the Constitutionally mandated officez. All other public departments and agencies need to be dissolved.The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. -Thomas Jefferson