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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Merry Christmas from Gov. 'Squeezy' and the Civic Committee

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Merry Christmas from Gov. 'Squeezy' and the Civic Committee:


Merry Christmas from Gov. 'Squeezy' and the Civic Committee

Retiree, living on fixed income, Thea Halvorson, uneasily envisions the possibility of losing here home. (Sim-Times)
Sun-Times headline: Retired state workers in cross-hairs of Illinois’ pension crisis 

Cross-hairs is right. Who would have imagined that a gaggle of "progressive" Democrats, along with a Democratic governor who has a Dem majority in both houses, would be stuffing rocks in the Christmas stockings of the state's elderly, retired public employees?

The great pension theft will impact some 700,000 retirees and family members -- who vote. Bye bye Gov. Squeezy. The Civic Committee's liar-in-chief, Ty Fahner blames the crisis on “too many [retirees] taking out and