What Gov. Quinn Didn’t Tell You

“Yes, we are going to continue
milking Illinois taxpayers like a dairy cow…”

what Gov. Quinn didn’t tell you
State of State Address
February 6, 2013

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Word cloud of State of State Address (what we heard)

Yesterday, Gov. Quinn gave the “State of the State”. Here’s the rest of the story…

The growth of state payroll is exploding. In 2012, the State of Illinois payroll went from 79,451 (2011) to 115,388 employees. We questioned the numbers, Quinn’s administration defended them. See chart here.

No stopping salary abuse, even from state officers. The Chief Investment Officerat Teachers Retirement System (TRS) salary spiked from $209,697 (2008) to $357,500(2011). See salary history.

The College & University payroll is padded with patronage. In 2000, the Illinois College and University system employed 51,439. Today, the system employs 90,213; but, student enrollment is up only 7%. Taxpayers and students are stuck with the bill- that’s called “generational theft”.

In 2011, the 7th highest salary went to the president of Moraine Valley Community College:$674,210. The junior college chief out-earned the Chancellor at the University of Illinois. See Top 8 Illinois College/University Salaries here.

Governor, the taxpayer is abused at every level of Illinois government…

In 2011, a DuPage County engineer cleaned off $340,147, tops among 197,000 local- municipal employees across the state. Click here.

In 2011, 57 village/city managers out-earned all governors of the 50 states. The village manager of small Grayslake topped them all- $259,252Click here.

Where are the Republicans? Milking the same dairy cow…

Senate Republican leader Christine Radogno just doled out six $20,649 “perks” for “leadership” – those cashing in include Sen. Kirk Dillard and Sen. Bill Brady. Now they make $87,000 plus. In Texas, legislators make a salary of $7,200Read Alton Telegraph Editorial.

See it all and learn more at www.openthebooks.com.

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  • Wolf

    It is the bloated Public Sector operations with their 50% over staffing and compensation levels plus their Multi-million Dollar Cadillac Retirement Plans that are bankrupting the nation, states and municipalities. Clearly the taxpayer cannot afford to support the 23 million millionaires of the Public Sector who have amassed a $50 Trillion obligation on the taxpayers for their fraudulent pension plans. The continuation of raising the already oppressive taxation levels in this country not only is destroying the private sector economy but they are raping and robbing the taxpayers beyond any levels ever endured in history. If one examines any Public Sector Labor Agreement the immensity of the fraud is evident for there is no rational basis for the salary and benefit scales in these Agreements. Add to this a Government that no longer adheres to the US Constitution and you have an extremely dangerous and deadly cocktail here. It is evident that the taxpayers no longer have any representation under the existing Public Sector and based on the sham of an Election process there is little hope to address this corruption using the conventional mechanism under the Constitution because the majority of the population are dependents on the handouts from this corrupt Public Sector operation whose policies are increasing the dependent class as they destroy the private sector. It is now guaranteed that the US will be bankrupt in the near term even before the EU especially as the Fed and Public Sector operations continue to borrow without any restraint. It will be the World’s greatest economic collapse to date. Throughout history this level of corruption and tyranny has never survived unfortunately many millions of innocent victims will suffer the price along with the criminals who created and benefit from this corruption.