That's why Obama is so desperate about the "Jobs Bill". He needs to maintain the solvency of a number of Dem enclaves. If they cease to have federal money to keep them afloat, Chicago, Detroit, NYC, and other places would be unable to support so many worthless Dem voters.
Visualize a Chicago which was no longer able to afford Welfare or large numbers of public employees, where the only way you could live there would be if you worked a private-sector job.
You'd be guessing right. The unfunded mandates (debt) and debt that Illinois has, far exceeds that of any other state in the country, California included.
This state is a freaking joke. The unions all vote Democrat here (no surprise) when it's the Democrats that have raided all the teachers and government workers pension funds.
The last governor to fully fund Teachers and State workers pensions here was (surprise, surprise!) a Republican, former Governor Jim Edgar.
The dem's here couldn't wait to get him out of office, now I hope they're cying in their beer after the raping, pillaging and plundering that Blagojevich (former governor, now on his way to jail) and the current governor Pat Quinn have done.