Cut 2500 State positions even if he gets the budget he wants.

Click on title above to read the newspaper article from The State Journal Register - Springfield, IL.

The statement below is taken from the paragraph 6th from the bottom.

Quinn has said he’ll need to cut more than 2,500 state positions and require workers to take 12 unpaid furlough days even if he gets the budget he wants. The layoff total could top 10,000 if money shortages continue, Quinn has warned.

The 4th paragraph from the top says: "We can’t budget based on a promise,” said Pam Sutherland of Planned Parenthood of Illinois, ..." Question: Why do the tav payers pay Planned Parenthood? If it is a successful organization it would stand on it's own.

Why does the State fund the personal service of people. Could it be that they have friends and cronies running them, invested in them, owned by them and they in turn get donations, kickbacks, votes and other support from them?

Why does Quinn and the State of Illinois feel it needs to pay for every service and then in turn threaten to cut the budget on the back of the State employees that are providing safety to the citizens of Illinois. If the cuts in the public safety fields, State Police & Corrections like he is claiming he will need there will be an increase in criminal activity on the street and in the prisons.

The safety & well-being of the citizens of Illinois and staff will be jeopardized. The prisons in Illinois are already understaffed. The staff are mandated to work double shifts. With additional cuts the staff will be forced (prisons must be manned) to work more shifts causing illness and fatigue. Staff in a fatigued state in a prison is very dangerous both for the staff and the inmates. The inmates that are weak, do not belong to a gang, have desired property, will be harmed physically, sexually, emotionally and financially. And the truth being told when the staffing is reduced the same dangers are placed on staff with physical danger becoming a daily reality.

I don’t know about you but I would not like going to work every day worried if I was going to get assaulted, raped, or killed doing my job.

So I have to ask one more time, why do we fund organizations like Planned Parenthood and fail to fund safety in the State?

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To all the elected in Illinois

To all the elected in Illinois:

You need to start serving Illinois and your constitutes. We are watching and watching closely. You no longer will be judged by what you or your spokesperson press release, but by your actions.

The world of Blogging and Twittering is now your press release. We are watching and reporting. Your vote and statements, on any item, can and will be posted for the world to see before you get out of your seat.

We the people of Illinois have more eyes and ears on you, now more than ever & a very fast means of communication. So you will have more damage control to work on, and the truth will prevail.

So it is suggested that you be honest and open (because you are more open than you think) and serve the people of Illinois and not special interest groups yourself or your cronies. Those who elected you are now your special interest group and your cronies.

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Senator: Burris, Roland W.

Senator: Durbin, Richard J.

Congresspersons:

• Bean, Melissa L.

• Biggert, Judy

• Costello, Jerry

• Davis, Danny K.

• Gutierrez, Luis

• Foster, Bill

• Hare, Phil

• Halvorson, Deborah "Debbie"

• Jackson Jr., Jesse L.

• Johnson, Timothy V.

• Kirk, Mark

• Lipinski, Daniel

• Manzullo, Donald

• Quigley, Mike

• Roskam, Peter J.

• Rush, Bobby L.

• Schakowsky, Jan

• Schock, Aaron

• Shimkus, John

Governor: Pat Quinn

Senate President: John J. Cullerton

Illinois Senators:

http://www.ilga.gov/senate/default.asp?sortby=DistrictNumber

Speaker of the House: Michael J. Madigan

Illinois House of Representatives:

http://www.ilga.gov/house/default.asp?sortby=DistrictNumber

Cook County Board President: Todd H. Stroger

Cook County Elected Officials:

http://www.co.cook.il.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=344&parentname=CommunityPage&parentid=0&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true

Chicago Mayor: Richard M. Daley

Along with all other County and Local elected officials in Illinois.

Here is a good place to go

Click on title above

This link will take you to a page that will provide information on the politicians and political news and provides you a way to make your voice, on the issues, heard. It is a good page to bookmark and check on every so often.

When will the auction begin?

So when will the auctions begin? I know the White House and all other levels of government, including Illinois will soon be auctioning off all the limousines, luxury cars, SUVs and aircraft in their fleets.

I want to be included in the list of people on the bid list. I would like to get a stretch limo or escalade for a good price. I would really like to get one of the vehicles that Al Gore has used.

See I know that these will go up for auction soon because our government officials are decent upstanding and concerned people. With Global Warming and now the big push to reduce carbon they will be downsizing from the limousines, luxury cars, SUVs and huge polluting aircraft to the Chevy Aveo (Government Motors) and smaller SUVs and glider planes.

I know these politicians will step up to the plate and lead by example. After all social conscientiousness comes before personal needs and wants. Correct?

Actually it is hard to use the word conscientiousness and politician in the same paragraph, especially with the leaders in Illinois.

conscientious |ˌkän ch ēˈen ch əs|

adjective

(of a person) wishing to do what is right, esp. to do one's work or duty well and thoroughly : a conscientious and hardworking clerk.

• (of work or a person's manner) showing such an attitude : a conscientious and purposeful look on her face.

• relating to a person's conscience : the act does not provide exemption from service on the basis of personal conscientious beliefs.

However, the last statement in the definition scares me. Because if they are truly working from ‘the basis of personal conscience beliefs’ I am totally afraid of their ‘inner feeling or voice’. If there is something inside driving them to believe that what they are doing is good, sound, and positive for society I am concerned about this feeling/voice and the origins of such. It is not good.

conscience |ˈkän ch əns|

noun

an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior : he had a guilty conscience about his desires | Ben was suffering a pang of conscience.

I would approve this tax

Now I have an idea for a new tax that would most likely save the good people of Illinois million and millions of dollars.

It is rathe simple. Whenever the legislators have to go into overtime sessions the bee assessed a tax of 50% of their daily pay for the overtime session and an addition fee equal to 1 day pay for everyday over since they did not do anything for the days needed to be carried over. (That is - they worked 1 day of overtime which means that there was 1 day of regular session they must not have done what they are paid for, thus owe us that pay back).

With a tax like this they would most likely start doing their job rather than maintain their political smoozing and making false or weak promises just to look good.

Tax the politician!!!!!