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Our Democratic governor Pat Quinn is destroying this state like Blagojevich did. He likes to increase spending on welfare and of course government workers while cutting programs for the disabled and seniors. In this state you only matter if you are on welfare. Illegals get welfare too here and 54% of babies are born on Medicaid. We need a moderate Republican to fix this state and cut welfare.
Our Democratic governor Pat Quinn is destroying this state like Blagojevich did. He likes to increase spending on welfare and of course government workers while cutting programs for the disabled and seniors. In this state you only matter if you are on welfare. Illegals get welfare too here and 54% of babies are born on Medicaid. We need a moderate Republican to fix this state and cut welfare.
Perhaps you should read a newspaper once or twice before you vote. You should also take a class in logic, many if not most of the disabled are on some form of welfare.
Our Democratic governor Pat Quinn is destroying this state like Blagojevich did. He likes to increase spending on welfare and of course government workers while cutting programs for the disabled and seniors. In this state you only matter if you are on welfare. Illegals get welfare too here and 54% of babies are born on Medicaid. We need a moderate Republican to fix this state and cut welfare.
I went to college in Illinois in the early 1990s. Every statewide office was held by a Republican. The state has swung far left and has been totally destroyed by the Democrats. Very sad that Illinois is now the biggest basket case in the union.
I knew things in Illinois were taking a downward turn when Carol Moseley-Braun won a Senate seat.
I went to college in Illinois in the early 1990s. Every statewide office was held by a Republican. The state has swung far left and has been totally destroyed by the Democrats. Very sad that Illinois is now the biggest basket case in the union.
I knew things in Illinois were taking a downward turn when Carol Moseley-Braun won a Senate seat.
I think IL has always swung back and forth. Certainly Chic has never been considered anything but left or most of the time. It is like CA, there are times when the state actually looks pretty normal, pretty much in the middle and then before you can open and close your eyes you get the left side on everything.
I went to college in Illinois in the early 1990s. Every statewide office was held by a Republican. The state has swung far left and has been totally destroyed by the Democrats. Very sad that Illinois is now the biggest basket case in the union.
I knew things in Illinois were taking a downward turn when Carol Moseley-Braun won a Senate seat.
What I always find interesting is that while Chicago and the suburbs (except the collar counties)tend to be left wing Democrat but the rest of the state is Republican. The Republicans are interesting because many of them are very moderate and aren't much different than the Democrats socially. However, unlike the Democrats they don't want to keep raising taxes while the money goes towards things we need to cut, like government workers or welfare. The welfare here is very generous where you can be illegal and get welfare or keep having babies and get increases, and they want to increase it even more. There was a bill (not sure if it passed)where they wanted tax payers to provide things like internet and cable to those on welfare. When I lived in Cook County I always saw stereotypical welfare queens (young single women with several kids and no husband). I have since moved to Will County which is more conservative, more actual families and less taxes because we aren't paying so much for welfare. The schools here are better too.
I once worked for a government agency with union workers and they were overpaid. I was management and yet was making less than subordinates. The unions here are dirty as well.
Our Democratic governor Pat Quinn is destroying this state like Blagojevich did. He likes to increase spending on welfare and of course government workers while cutting programs for the disabled and seniors. In this state you only matter if you are on welfare. Illegals get welfare too here and 54% of babies are born on Medicaid. We need a moderate Republican to fix this state and cut welfare.
Good for you for being able to think out of the box. Illinois obviously has layer upon layer of institutional corruption, as we saw with blago. I recall also the story from 2011 about several people from the streets & san dept in Chicago who wrangled themselves $150,000 lifetime pensions by getting some special law slipped thru that happened to apply only to them.
I think IL just needs to get some people in office with integrity & character, without regard to R/D or right/left. There was an R gov. in IL who wound up in the clink, too. It's tough to find such people who are willing to run.
Yes Illinois needs to clean up, but especially in Chicago. I worked for a certain transportation agency and the government waste I saw was out of control.
Don't forget the last GOP governor the state had, ended up in prison on bribery charges and also gave numerous convicted murderers on death row clemency.
If you think voting (R) will fix anything, you are very much mistaken.
He was bad too but Blago and Quinn expanded the welfare system.
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