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ColesCountyDem

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6. And the GOP is trying to pretend that they had nothing to do with the crisis.

Fri Sep 11, 2015, 07:10 PM

Sep 2015

The GOP has been very effective at convincing its lemming-like followers to look back no further than the day Rod Blagoevich took office, when affixing the blame for the pension crisis; by doing so, they can blame us for this mess. The reason they don't want to go back, say, 70 years, when the underfunding became virtually institutionalized, is because both the governor's mansion and the legislature were controlled for much longer by Republicans, than by Democrats.

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Illinois will not appeal high court ruling on pension reform [View all] Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2015 OP

How about this fix? GitRDun Sep 2015 #1

Even normally progressive Eric Zorn is coming up with 'bleed the pensioners' plans now: Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2015 #2

I for one am sick of this crap. GitRDun Sep 2015 #3

"... the pension deal we all agreed to...." ColesCountyDem Sep 2015 #4

I don't blame you GitRDun Sep 2015 #5

And the GOP is trying to pretend that they had nothing to do with the crisis. ColesCountyDem Sep 2015 #6

Yup GitRDun Sep 2015 #7

Exactly! ColesCountyDem Sep 2015 #8

Nice discussion GitRDun Sep 2015 #9

And a fellow Democrat. ColesCountyDem Sep 2015 #10

Thompson and Edgar (both repub governors) accelerated the problem rather than addressing it. Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2015 #11