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Illinois

Peregrine Took

(7,504 posts) Mon May 11, 2015, 09:30 PM May 2015

"Fire all state employees" says VP of communications, Ill Policy Institute

and they, IPI. are supposed to lend intellectual heft to the Rauner administration.

Apparently the Tribune actually published this drivel.

http://capitolfax.com/2015/05/11/rickert-fire-all-state-workers/

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"Fire all state employees" says VP of communications, Ill Policy Institute (Original Post) Peregrine Took May 2015 OP

Sorta sounds like the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, Jackpine Radical May 2015 #1

I wonder how long it would take for that jerk SheilaT May 2015 #2

A Ronald Reagan move? nt Stellar May 2015 #3

I read the article and it's based on one huge idiotic idea jmowreader Jun 2015 #4

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

1. Sorta sounds like the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute,

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2015, 09:34 PM

May 2015

which can invariably be counted on to come up with cherry-picked data to support whatever right-wing positions they are being paid to support.

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

2. I wonder how long it would take for that jerk

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Mon May 11, 2015, 10:53 PM

May 2015

to understand that state employees actually accomplish useful things.

Stellar

(5,644 posts)

3. A Ronald Reagan move? nt

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2015, 10:14 AM

May 2015

jmowreader

(51,466 posts)

4. I read the article and it's based on one huge idiotic idea

Reply to Peregrine Took (Original post)

Thu Jun 4, 2015, 10:09 AM

Jun 2015

The theory is, Illinois government employees' pensions are breaking the state. If they fire the employees then rehire them, they can force those people to move into 401(k) plans.

Unfortunately, when you fire then rehire a government employee in the real world everything the government employee had coming to him or her before the firing is still coming to him or her - INCLUDING the pension plan that is standing in the way of yet another budget-busting tax cut.

Make no mistake: right wingers' entire worldview revolves around tax cuts and deregulation.

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