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Cook County Employees to be Laid Off; Cry and Beg to be Spared
Black & Blonde Media ^ | 11/22/17 | Bob and Laura Parks

Posted on 11/22/2017 8:19:02 PM PST by impetrio1

At some point, you run out of ways to squeeze more revenue out of the public and reality sets in; the same reality that walks in county facilities and are met with more indifference than compassion, which is why it's hard to feel much sympathy for some of these fat-and-panicked employees that have had secure jobs for decades.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; cookcounty; governmentworkers
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1 posted on 11/22/2017 8:19:03 PM PST by impetrio1
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To: impetrio1

I wound if they would like to send illegal aliens home now.


2 posted on 11/22/2017 8:20:19 PM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: impetrio1

Related...

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3607195/posts


3 posted on 11/22/2017 8:23:38 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: impetrio1

I hate it for the individuals but this is just more proof that bigger and bigger government isn’t the solution.


4 posted on 11/22/2017 8:24:10 PM PST by boycott
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To: impetrio1

Perfect Timing..... Right before the Holidays!

Well, at least Trump is getting the Economy going again, and
look at the bright side: - Hillary is not the President!


5 posted on 11/22/2017 8:26:15 PM PST by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: impetrio1

I hear a lot of: “I’m a single mother.”


6 posted on 11/22/2017 8:28:02 PM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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Preckwinkle is a hardcore leftist and this is how she looks out for “the people”. Watch how her Marxist policies destroy Cook County. The soda tax was BS so get your hip-boots on, my friends. It’s going to get deep and wide.

Well, that’ what Chicago/Cook County get for electing so many communists and Marxists to key governmental/institutional positions from City Hall, City Council, Cook County Hospital, etc.


7 posted on 11/22/2017 8:36:13 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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These Cook County workers will have to get real jobs - ones where they actually have to work. Poor snowflakes!


8 posted on 11/22/2017 8:36:13 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: impetrio1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6NTKCtxFtU


9 posted on 11/22/2017 8:38:07 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: impetrio1

Totally different mentality. They never cope with any difficulty in life like anyone else


10 posted on 11/22/2017 8:38:51 PM PST by Lee25
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To: impetrio1

Trumps Fault, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6,............


11 posted on 11/22/2017 8:40:18 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Damn, the tag line disappeared again? Coursors!)
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And just wait ‘til they repeal the federal tax SALT deduction on the high-taxed blue states - Illinois, California, New Jersey.......


12 posted on 11/22/2017 8:43:40 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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dint see a single one that can't be done without
13 posted on 11/22/2017 8:59:27 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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Too bad... You should always live below your means and save a little money. I haven't gotten a paycheck since May 2000. I am still here and pay my bills every month. My highest salary year was $50,000 and that was my last year at work. No pension. I am living off of savings and a little cabin rental business that me and my sweet wife do all by ourselves. We are 60 and loving life.......
14 posted on 11/22/2017 9:00:25 PM PST by Dandy (Drain the swamp baby!!!)
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To: boycott

But bigger government employs more people.


15 posted on 11/22/2017 9:01:08 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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That’s what happens to counties and cities controlled by democrats
for 60 years.
Look at what the RATs did to Detroit.


16 posted on 11/22/2017 9:02:02 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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Welcome to the real world, government stooges. You know, the world where you can actually lose your job for almost any reason, at any time.


17 posted on 11/22/2017 9:09:44 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: reg45

And under Trump they should be able to find a new job...if they are willing to actually work.


18 posted on 11/22/2017 9:33:43 PM PST by tiki
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321 jobs cut to balance a $200M budget shortfall

that calculates to approximately $600K per job. any of these jobs below look like they deserve $600K per year? Keep in mind that $600K is the average.

includes:
-156 positions from the court system
-100 from the Cook County Sheriff’s Department
-34 from the hospital system
-15 from the board president’s office


19 posted on 11/22/2017 9:36:43 PM PST by UglyinLA (Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. Aristotle 345BC, by way of Will Durant, 1926.)
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To: impetrio1; 50mm; Larry Lucido; humblegunner
"At some point, you run out of ways to squeeze more revenue out of the public and reality sets in..."

Maybe they should try excerpts to a blog with a PayPal link.

20 posted on 11/22/2017 10:10:37 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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