shout-out to NNNOLHI, Don, the grouchy old primitive

[franksolich]

Hey, Don, sir.

Yeah, you.

Remember this?

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,55662.0

NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Feb-20-11 08:16 AM
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Kind of boring here in Illinois with our Dem-controlled Congress (both houses) and a Dem Governor
   
I am sure happy people were smart enough to do the right thing here last election and didn't fall for the bullshit and stay home and not vote. What a relief. And this is right after the Blago fiasco.

Wonder why the Frank Luntz talking points didn't work so well here?

Don

Now, explain this, please, courtesy your fellow Illinoisian thundley4:

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,62192/

SPRINGFIELD - Illinois is No. 1, but not in a good way.

Auditor General William Holland says Illinois ended the 2010 fiscal year with more red ink than any state in the nation, including similarly cash-strapped California.

Illinois' $37.9 billion net deficit, which includes debts owed to state employee pension systems, is more than the state will spend out of its general checkbook this year. The closest state to Illinois' downward spiral was New Jersey, with a $28.2 billion imbalance.

Connecticut and California were the only other states reporting deficits, according to Holland's report. Oil- and gas-rich Texas, by contrast, was $94 billion to the plus side of the ledger book.

Tsk, tsk, Don, old pal.

I suspect some confiscatory property taxes on your home over there.

Too bad, Don, sir, but you voted for it.

[franksolich]

By the way, Don, sir, it was pretty boring out here in Nebraska too, this past spring when all that stuff was happening up over in Wisconsin, what with our Republican governor and Republican legislature.

They got all their work done in just a few days, and everybody went home.

State taxes got lowered, the state savings-account got boosted.

Shove that up your rectal aperture and smoke it, sir.

[Karin]

And his property taxes have already gone up $1500, which is absolutely brutal for someone on a fixed income.  I think it's criminal. 

[thundley4]

Let's not forget Illinois has some of the highest sales taxes in the nation, and ranks high in gas taxes, too.  Our local sales tax comes to 11% total.

[franksolich]

And his property taxes have already gone up $1500, which is absolutely brutal for someone on a fixed income.  I think it's criminal. 

Old Don thought he had it all figured out.

As many know, Don went to work in the local factory right out of high school, at the age of 18 years.

He saved his money, he kept his nose clean, and was able to retire at 48 years, after 30 years there.

Nothing wrong with that.

But old Don, now 58 years old, almost 59, was too smart for his own good.

He figured if he'd support the bosses and the machine, they'd take care of him.  And so for about 30 years, old Don voted the straight machine line, keeping the bosses entrenched in power; nobody, but nobody, was more enthusiastic for the bosses than old Don.

Ooops.

So, now rather than living out his life in peace and quiet and serenity and security, one assumes that old Don's going to have to don one of those blue (or red) aprons of a Wal-Mart greeter, a job which he'll have to work until God takes him away (not for a long time yet, though, one sincerely hopes).

Old Don thought he had it all figured out.

[Airwolf]

And his property taxes have already gone up $1500, which is absolutely brutal for someone on a fixed income.  I think it's criminal. 

I think it's just what he deserves

[franksolich]

I think it's just what he deserves

The only problem though, is that one weeps, the heart breaks, for the good and decent people of Illinois who didn't support the bosses and the machine.

Damn.

Their sweat and blood's on old Don's shoulders, because he did.

[Karin]

And you know where all this *******ed money is going, don't you.  Greasing palms.  Payola.  Paying blackmail.  Welcome to Illinois, home of swamp politics. 

[Tucker]

After the tax increases hit home, I wonder if IL. will enjoy the totally blue status after the next election.

At any rate, Durbin is an idiot and needs to be evicted.

[GOBUCKS]

Here in red state hell, $2500 will pay real estate taxes on a McMansion, and there's no state or local income tax.

The little shrinking handful of democrats still in the legislature are yapping about how to spend the state budget surplus.

If there were more than a little handful, I'm sure there would be no surplus.

[thundley4]

And you know where all this *******ed money is going, don't you.  Greasing palms.  Payola.  Paying blackmail.  Welcome to Illinois, home of swamp politics. 

Illinois' $37.9 billion net deficit, which includes debts owed to state employee pension systems, is more than the state will spend out of its general checkbook this year. The closest state to Illinois' downward spiral was New Jersey, with a $28.2 billion imbalance.

On a side note. governor Quinn claimed he would cut the pay raises the unions were getting, but he knew all along that the dem state legislature would not let him.  The union workers are getting raises while the workers in the state effectively get a pay cut to pay for their raises.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Old Don thought he had it all figured out.

As many know, Don went to work in the local factory right out of high school, at the age of 18 years.

He saved his money, he kept his nose clean, and was able to retire at 48 years, after 30 years there.

Nothing wrong with that.

But old Don, now 58 years old, almost 59, was too smart for his own good...

In strictly economic terms: he worked half his life, then ceased to be productive and will spend the next 30 years living on other people's labor because the money he's collecting exceeds what he paid-in.

Except now the other people want to keep their money.

[miskie]

The only problem though, is that one weeps, the heart breaks, for the good and decent people of Illinois who didn't support the bosses and the machine.

Damn.

Their sweat and blood's on old Don's shoulders, because he did.

This is true - my understanding of Illinois politics is there is the state, and then there is Chicago and surrounding communities. Chicago decides everyone's fate, including all of the farmers who live in the south of the state by virtue of its voting population.

[franksolich]

In strictly economic terms: he worked half his life, then ceased to be productive and will spend the next 30 years living on other people's labor because the money he's collecting exceeds what he paid-in.

Except now the other people want to keep their money.

Well, but alas for the grouchy old primitive, that's not the way it's going to work out now.

Probably within a very few--two or three years--old Don's going to have to re-enter the labor force, right at the time he's least suited for it, ending up in some menial job.  And his wife's going to have to take in boarders.

If he wants to save his house, that's what's going to happen.

And that might not even be enough.

But it's his own damned fault.

[GOBUCKS]

This is true - my understanding of Illinois politics is there is the state, and then there is Chicago and surrounding communities. Chicago decides everyone's fate, including all of the farmers who live in the south of the state by virtue of its voting population.

You can say that about nearly any blue state.

The decent and civilized people own and live in 95% of the state's geography, only to be outvoted by the steaming, squirming, squalid, stinking masses in the blue urban hellholes.

[Airwolf]

You can say that about nearly any blue state.

The decent and civilized people own and live in 95% of the state's geography, only to be outvoted by the steaming, squirming, squalid, stinking masses in the blue urban hellholes.

Well to paraphrase Jack Nicholson in "Batman".

"Decent people shouldn't live here, they'd be better off someplace else".

[Ballygrl]

Just curious, has Illinois thought about declaring bankruptcy will would void all union contracts?

[thundley4]

Just curious, has Illinois thought about declaring bankruptcy will would void all union contracts?

   That's funny. The state legislature is all for giving the unions more raises, not cutting them.   The unions and Chicago thugs run the state government.

[GOBUCKS]

Just curious, has Illinois thought about declaring bankruptcy will would void all union contracts?

Anyone who tampers with union contracts in Illinois had better hire someone to start his car every morning.

[Ballygrl]

   That's funny. The state legislature is all for giving the unions more raises, not cutting them.   The unions and Chicago thugs run the state government.

There's going to come a point though where something has to be done.

[franksolich]

There's going to come a point though where something has to be done.

But nothing'll probably be done until after Don can't afford his house any more.

But again, it's his own damned fault.  He voted for it, he got it.