Friday, February 20, 2015

ASSAULT ON MIDDLE-AMERICA CONTINUES! Illinois budget to cut $6.7 billion from pensions, health care, social services

Illinois budget to cut $6.7 billion from pensions, health care, social services


Illinois budget to cut $6.7 billion from pensions, health care, social services
By Kristina Betinis and Alexander Fangmann
20 February 2015
The budget unveiled Wednesday by Governor Bruce Rauner of Illinois is an open declaration of class war against the working people of the fifth-largest US state, one of the major centers of the industrial working class, where some of the most important class battles in American history have been fought.
Rauner, the newly elected Republican governor, called for spending cuts totaling $6.7 billion. Nearly half of the cuts will come from the pensions and health benefits of state employees, while the remaining half will hit Medicaid, higher education, transportation and other state services.


The cuts detailed by the governor’s office include: BUT WATCH THEM HAND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS!!!
  • $2.2 billion from shifting most state employees to a scaled-back pension plan imposed on new hires in 2011, cutting their future benefits
  • $700 million from health benefits for current state employees, to be imposed in upcoming contract talks with the public employee unions
  • $1.5 billion from Medicaid by tightening eligibility standards, reducing payments to hospitals and nursing homes by 12 percent, and curtailing so-called “optional” services for adults such as dental care and podiatry
  • $387 million from higher education, including $209 million from the University of Illinois
  • $127 million from mass transit for the densely populated Chicago metropolitan area
  • $167 million by denying Department of Children and Family Services aid to young adults aged 18 to 21
  • $600 million from state aid to local governments, devastating the budgets of cities, towns, counties and villages throughout the state
  • $82 million from mental health and substance abuse services and services for those with special needs, including adults living with autism and epilepsy
Many of Rauner’s targets are the state’s most vulnerable residents: homeless youth, poor families, the sick, immigrants, the disabled. The Medicaid cut is particularly cruel, since both enrollment and expenditures have doubled between 2000 and 2011, an indication of the enormous social need for health care.

Rauner rejected any tax increases on the wealthy and proposed only a single minor spending increase, about $300 million for elementary and secondary education, which he had promised in his election campaign.

In his address to the state legislature, Rauner called for other longer term attacks on the working class, including significant reductions in workers compensation and unemployment insurance, further pension cuts, tax cuts for business and reduced regulation of businesses.

Far from facing opposition from the Democrats at either the state or federal level, Rauner is taking a leadership role in a bipartisan nationwide assault on the living standards of the working class, who are being bled to further enrich the financial aristocracy.

Representatives of Rauner’s office and state Republicans have met over the last several weeks to discuss the proposed budget with US Senator Dick Durbin, the state’s top Democrat, as well as Michael Madigan and John Cullerton, the Democratic leaders of the Illinois legislature.

After the budget was unveiled, Speaker of the House Madigan emphasized his openness to Rauner’s approach, saying, “There are no non-starter proposals.” Senate President Cullerton expressed his enthusiasm for getting to work with Rauner on the budget after the governor’s State of the State address on February 4.

The attack on state worker pensions builds on the momentum of attacks by local Democratic Party politicians in Stockton, California and Detroit, where flagrantly illegal and unconstitutional attacks on pension benefits have been pushed through using federal bankruptcy laws.

In Illinois the previous Democratic administration of Pat Quinn began the attack on pensions, first splitting state workers in 2011 into two tiers, then enacting a 2013 law that gradually eliminated the differences between Tier 1 and Tier 2.

Last year, a state court ruled that reducing pension benefits was a violation of the state constitution. The Illinois state supreme court is to hear arguments on the case on March 11.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, a Democrat and the

daughter of the House speaker, will argue that the 2007-2008

financial collapse so upset the state’s finances that it is justified

under the broad grant of “police power” to the states under the 10th

Amendment to the US Constitution to override the state

constitutional provision protecting public employee pensions, a

legal argument that is both preposterous and reactionary.

The day after Rauner’s budget was issued, President Obama visited the south side of Chicago for a photo-op ceremony establishing a US national park honoring Pullman porters, and to give his well-publicized endorsement of Mayor Rahm Emanuel for reelection. Neither Obama nor Emanuel said anything about the devastating attack on jobs, living conditions and social programs just announced in Illinois.

There was good reason for their silence. Obama at the national level and Emanuel in Chicago have carried out equivalent attacks on the social rights of working people. Obama’s budget, issued February 2, calls for record levels of military spending, continued spending freezes and cuts for most federal programs, and a draconian $400 billion cut over ten years in Medicare.

Emanuel, Obama’s former chief of staff, has spearheaded the attack on public education in Chicago, closing 50 public schools and firing thousands of teachers. He has also pushed for pension cuts to Chicago municipal workers, eliminated health care for retirees and slashed mental health and other city services.

Emanuel is personally close to Bruce Rauner, and they come from the same social milieu—the extremely wealthy North Shore—with Emanuel himself having worked as an investment banker after a stint in Congress, just before entering the White House to serve in the Obama administration. Rauner was an adviser to Emanuel in his implementation of school “reforms” which led to the Chicago teachers’ strike in 2012.




THE IMPENDING GLOBAL DEPRESSION – OBAMANOMICS AT WORK… even as his crony banksters  loot trillions!






AMERICA: NO DAMNED AMERICAN (Legal) NEED APPLY!!!

But we still get the tax bills for Mexico’s welfare state and crime tidal wave in our open borders!

 

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/02/america-no-legal-need-apply-but-we.html


CIS: For Every New Job in U.S., Double Number of New Immigrants – Legal and Illegal

AMNESTY…. THE HOAX TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED AND PASS ALONG  THE REAL COST OF ALL THAT “CHEAP” LABOR TO THE BACKS OF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS.

 

TURNING YOUR PENSION OVER TO THE ILLEGALS? They already have your job!

THE BANKSTER-FUNDED DEMOCRAT PARTY BUILDING THE

LA RAZA “THE RACE” MEXICAN WELFARE STATE ON OUR

BACKS AND CUTTING PENSIONS OF LEGALS AT THE SAME

TIME!


http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/02/assault-on-middle-america-illinois.html


CONGRESS:  ILLEGALS SAP TAX DOLLARS

CA alone puts out $28 billion in social services to illegals and that’s on the state level.

 

CONGRESS DECLARES THAT ILLEGALS SAP TAX DOLLARS… SO THEN WHAT WOULD 40 MILLION LEGALIZED MEXICAN LOOTERS DO??? GO OUT AND VOTE GOP?

 


 

UNIONS WAGE STAGGERING WAR ON WAGES FOR AMERICAN (LEGALS) WORKERS!

 

WALL STREET’S PERPETUAL BAILOUT and the DEATH of the AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS

WALL STREET SURGES … a day closer to the meltdown and another bailout!



Income inequality grows FOUR TIMES FASTER under Obama than Bush


The study noted that, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the US undertook policies “during the New Deal [that] permanently reduced income concentration until the 1970s.” In contrast, the study noted a striking absence of any measures to reign in social inequality in the present crisis. Far from it, the Obama administrations’ bank bailouts, austerity program and wage-cutting policies have vastly expanded the prevalence of social inequality.



JOBS – WORST UNDER OBAMA SINCE THE
DEPRESSION ...meanwhile millions of Mexicans have jumped our borders and jobs for obamacare, LA RAZA welfare, anchor baby welfare and to vote dem for more!!!
 

more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast



http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/08/two-thirds-of-all-jobs-under-obama-go.html



DURING OBAMA’S FIRST TERM 2/3s OF ALL JOBS WENT TO IMMIGRANTS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL. FEDERAL WORKPLACE ENFORCEMENT of LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT of ILLEGALS PLUMMETED 70%... AND OBAMA - HOLDER SABOTAGED E-VERIFY EVERYWHERE THEY COULD TO EASE MORE LA RAZA INTO OUR JOBS!

 

AMNESTY….LA RAZA IS PRINTING OUT FRAUD I.D.s BY THE MILLIONS.

"They hauled them down to the border," Sakuma said. "Three days later, they were standing in our office, but they had a different name and a different Social Security number."

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/04/here-come-la-raza-hordes-for-our-jobs.html



BARACK OBAMA, LA RAZA FASCISM and the CULTURE of DEM CORRUPTION

They Destroyed Our Country

“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”

more at this link – post on your Facebook and email broadcast


http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-democrat-party-party-for-illegals.html



THE LOOTING OF DETROIT: A case study on the
methods the 1% use to loot America.

Your city, job and your pension next on the line for the slaughter!





The (REAL) state of American society as 2015 begins


"While the official unemployment rate has declined, the share of  working-age men who are employed hit its lowest level on record in November 2014. This figure has fallen from 86.7 percent in 1948 to 69 percent today. The share of employees working at temp agencies has climbed during the economic “recovery.” More than 12 million people, or ten percent of the labor force, worked for a temporary employment agency at some point in 2013."



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