Unpaid bills for Illionois are $4.712 billion

[soccerballtux]

They still haven't paid me my tax refund I am owed...

And with all the budget shortfalls, many of the unions are on strike to make sure they're not a part of the massive cuts...

the unions and wallstreet are the reason for the costs being so high. The retiree benefit packages are fucking absurd.

this is actually an interesting idea. Then they'll lose face when they fail at it. Justice served?

 

[soccerballtux]

I'm in Illinois now.

They can elect me Governor to fix it.

If they don't it's their own damn fault.

I shudder to think what sort of milk-price-control-legislation you'd enact

 

[Acanthus]

LOL. Only a die-hard liberal partisan is too blind to see that the state has been run into the ground and is now essentially insolvent. The ONLY reason it can still get credit anywhere is that the lenders realize that when it comes down to it Obummer will pay off the IL debts, from one wasteful spender to another.

You mean like only a partisan would believe a newswire style article with no information backing and some crooked statistics?

 

[GeezerMan]

You mean like only a partisan would believe a newswire style article with no information backing and some crooked statistics?

Oh? You must of missed the link in the article to a PDF by the state of illinois comptroller, Daniel Hynes. That good enough for ya?

http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/CQ4thQrtrJuly2010.pdf

 

[Double Trouble]

Oh? You must of missed the link in the article to a PDF by the state of illinois comptroller, Daniel Hynes. That good enough for ya?

http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/CQ4thQrtrJuly2010.pdf

Ouch.

 

[EagleKeeper]

You mean like only a partisan would believe a newswire style article with no information backing and some crooked statistics?

Oh? You must of missed the link in the article to a PDF by the state of illinois comptroller, Daniel Hynes. That good enough for ya?

http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/CQ4thQrtrJuly2010.pdf

Blind partisanship can be dangerous for one's reputation.:\

 

[nick1985]

Oh? You must of missed the link in the article to a PDF by the state of illinois comptroller, Daniel Hynes. That good enough for ya?

http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/CQ4thQrtrJuly2010.pdf

lol

 

[Acanthus]

Oh? You must of missed the link in the article to a PDF by the state of illinois comptroller, Daniel Hynes. That good enough for ya?

http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/CQ4thQrtrJuly2010.pdf

RTFL.

some transfers to other state funds have been delayed for the entire fiscal year and the state was unable to transfer $276 million back to the Budget stabilization Fund on June 30th. Both the amount payable and the days delayed are record highs.

Why do you think that is?

a few factors have had a major impact on the cash flow position – the state’s economy driven revenues weakened and spending was transferred to other funds in the fourth quarter.

Which other funds?

The ones that are frozen.

Ugh.

If you don't even understand the fundamentals of how IL doles out money to it's various agencies, you have no way of understanding how freezing a ton of the states funds for auditing when your asshole governor gets slammed with corruption charges affects the general fund.

 

[GeezerMan]

OK, let's wait until all of this shakes out, and we will see if they are in a peachy condition and can bailout California, or if Governor Quinn starts paying the govt employees minimum wage too.

 

[Ronstang]

It is easy to see where Obama learned his budgeting skills from.

 

[Zargon]

RTFL.



Why do you think that is?



Which other funds?

The ones that are frozen.

Ugh.

If you don't even understand the fundamentals of how IL doles out money to it's various agencies, you have no way of understanding how freezing a ton of the states funds for auditing when your asshole governor gets slammed with corruption charges affects the general fund.

so how is this not a democrats fault again?

 

[Acanthus]

so how is this not a democrats fault again?

It's an assholes fault...

Republicans have never been charged with corruption?

I thought we were discussing budget issues 1st of all. Second of all i'm an independent voter.

 

[rudder]

yeap. people really have no idea how bad ILL politicians are.

They will when the bills for the current administration come due.

 

[GeezerMan]

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/illinois-state-workers-payraises-20100706


Everything is OK now. They approved a 14% raise for 40,000 state workers, so they must have the money.....

 

[dmcowen674]

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/illinois-state-workers-payraises-20100706


Everything is OK now. They approved a 14% raise for 40,000 state workers, so they must have the money.....

From the article:

"Fox neglected to mention that Illinois has the nation's fewest state employees per capita. Manufactured controversies like this misinform the public and insult the men and women of state government who care for the disabled, aid the unemployed, prevent child abuse, analyze crime-scene evidence, keep our prisons safe, and perform all the other essential services Illinois residents rely on every day"

 

[VinylxScratches]

FauxNews at its best.