Wednesday, December 4, 2013

A Rogue Nation, we may have become.

STATE REP. IVES ON PENSION BILL: "SOMETHING A ROGUE NATION, RUN BY DESPOTS, WOULD DO"

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SPRINGFIELD - During the House floor pension debate Tuesday, State Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) challenged Speaker Mike Madigan's SB 1's wording concerning the 401k option. The language she questioned reads "the System shall be entitled to recover the amounts in the participant's defined contribution accounts": 
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"That to me sounds like something a rogue nation run by despots would do - they would take private property and put it back into a plan," Ives said. 

Madigan reacted initially with one word: "Whoa!" See a brief portion of the exchange below. More is HERE:

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous12/04/2013

    This has been the plan for some time, but try to tell people and they roll their eyes and laugh.

    from 2008-
    Democratic leaders in the U.S. House discuss confiscating 401(k)s, IRAs
    http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/dems-target-private-retirement-accounts.html

    Yeah, they want to manage your retirement as well as they have social security.

    Like building an Ice Arena/Gymnastics facility on the taxpayers dime, the government and local politicians are only too happy to spend your money.
    Beverly Arts Center, Borders, how about ANOTHER pizza joint on the southside.

    Still don't get it? Ask the residents of Bridgeview how they feel about their taxpayer funded soccer stadium that has them $200 Million in debt and raised their property taxes twice with a third hike coming!

    We eat our young.

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  2. Anonymous12/06/2013


    so let me get this straight??
    Cunningham, Burke and Hurley ALL VOTED for the passage of the bill that will now allow the State of Illinois to "take back, steal, abscond", a portion of OUR PENSION money as they see fit???? pension money we earned and in our accounts???
    countries have revolutions over this type of thing,
    when did America ever start to take money back from it's citizens.

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  3. Anonymous12/06/2013

    This is so ballsy of these guys, don't they understand that the majority of us here in the 19th ward are police officers, firefighters, teachers and governemtn workers?
    granted our pensions for the city CFD are in a different pension but teachers and other govt. workers are not, so are we next with the city???

    why do we keep voting for these Aholes?

    K. sullivan

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  4. Anonymous12/07/2013

    vote them out of office thanks fran

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  5. Anonymous12/11/2013

    she's sexy as hell!

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