re: #264 HappyWarrior

Right, if they truly were pro-life, they wouldn’t support cuts to education or programs that help people get out of poverty. I’m going to single out DF’s governor here since DF likes using Rauner as an example of a “GOP moderate” in the age of Obama. This is what the guy did. It was autism awareness week and the guy cut funding to autism research. and treatment.

You’d have rather he waited till the next week? The cuts had to be made, HW. Illinois doesn’t have the money to fund autism research and can only fund training and treatment at a “keep the lights on and some staff in the office” level.

Now I understand people will suffer because of this, but they will suffer because of bad decisions by Bruce Rauner’s predecessors. Chief among those bad decisions was to raise state pensions without budgeting the needed funding. Because of that failure, Illinois has massive liabilities and both tax increases and spending cuts are needed to close the gap (Rauner notably did not sign Grover Norquist’s pledge not to raise any taxes, as he knew not raising at least some taxes would be impossible).

Again, I know the spending cuts will cause real hardship, but for most of the cuts that cannot be allowed to cause them not to be enacted. The state constitution will not permit pension cuts, so spending must be cut in other places and this must be done without chasing businesses away.

I cleaned up your post as it had several spelling errors.