Hoooo, boy. That Dick Dirtbin. What a wit.
I agree. They should be FIRED!
Hey Sen. Dirtbag, you’ve got a state back here at home that’s in far worse shape, with a clueless sock-puppet in the Governors Mansion and a corrupt politically-motivated legislature running Illinois into the abyss. Keep your stinkin’ nose out of other states business.
Meanwhile in his home State is preparing to “badger” its people with massive State layoffs and tax increases.
Moron!!
Everything that needs to be said about this story can be summed up in five words:
Ronald Reagan - Air Traffic Controllers
Period.
Badgered, no!!! Fired, Yes!!!
Oh, I didn’t realize they were after “fair pay”!
That is so easy! Fire half of them, then cut the salaries of the other half and do away with their bennies. How you like being in the private sector? Now THAT’S fair!
The official state animal...the governor!
If memory serves me, this was the same logic the aircraft controller's union used just before Reagan busted them back in the early 1980's. I just hope Walker has the stones to tell these people to go take a hike.
I'm a retired college professor and I've always maintained that the tenure system, at any education level, kindergarten through graduate school, is a bad idea. It removes one level of responsibility for what you say in the classroom to a bunch of people who haven't even begun to think critically. It's time to take the NEA, AFT, and AAUP to task and free educational institutions to pick what they feel are good teachers and not be ham-strung by a set of collective bargaining rules.
They don’t call him Turban Durbin for nothing.
It was stupid of Ryan to compare the demonstrations in Wisconsin to Cairo. Absolutely and utterly dumb. I am imagine he regrets every saying that.
That is exactly the image the union thugs want - the idea that their protesters are fighting for something noble and democratic. In fact, they are protesting to protect their absurd benefit packages and corrupt power in Wisconsin.
Ryan screwed up by saying that. The media seized on that comment and have used it to mold public opinion in favor of of the leftist protesters ever since.
This is because his compadre, the corrupt Dem liar Governor Quinn, broke his campaign pledge and just raised the state income tax by a horrendous amount.
This is already driving business out of Illinois, but at least the upcoming confiscated tax dollars will keep the teachers' and other unions that control the state legislature happy for a while.
The Illinois state income tax is a bottomless mother lode for the Dems to mine for decades to come. Utilizing it as a tool to pay into union pension funds avoids all those pesky demonstrations and strikes such as Wisconsin is experiencing.
Leni
What the State of Wisconsin does is none of Durbin’s business.
Didn’t Illinois just enact a 60% tax increase?
It's Athens, Greece!
The Red Menace is here, it's real, it's in your face and it wears the union label.
What about the working class, non-government taxpayers, Durban?
Durbin needs to meet a 2x4.... =.=
Illinois produces some real a-holes.
So maybe you should concentrate on improving business conditions in your own state, instead of hiking our income and corporate taxes through the roof. In the meantime those 100+ works are going to be drawing unemployment rather than paying income taxes, making the state fiscal problem worse. Could Illinois Democrats get any more clueless?