Looks like Illinois wins the big prize!!! N/C

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dori36

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The good news is that Standish, Michigan, won't be hosting them!  Even about half the people of Standish didn't want them moved there even thought their unemployment is HIGH and their prison has closed.  Good grief, trying to provide jobs sometimes makes people sell their souls, not to mention their common sense.
 

knabe

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one must learn to distinguish between jobs that are paid for with taxpayer money, and those in the private sector.

government salaries are up, obama will get a bill to raise federal salaries 2%, hiring is on the increase, revenues are down, irs action is up.

think about this.  18 months ago, there was one salary at 170,000 at the department of transportation.  now, there are 1400.

think about that for a second.  1690*170,000=2873,000,000, yes, that's million per year and doesn't include retirement and health care upon retirement.  in 4 years, that's over a billion dollars and doesn't include all the other DOT employees.

the only people hiring right now is government, otherwise employment figures would be massively worse.  

but hey, we can spend our way out of anything.  the only thing our politicians know how to do is shift who pays for all this crap on the unborn as they have even less rights than illegal aliens, especially with democrats.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091212/ap_on_bi_ge/us_congress_spending

a 1,000-plus-page spending bill that would give the Education Department, the State Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and others increases far exceeding inflation.

more

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-10-federal-pay-salaries_N.htm

The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.

Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession’s first 18 months — and that’s before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.

Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.

please, keep voting for the same people.

here's how you get played to make it look like your rep cares.

The Democrats opposed were Sens. Evan Bayh of Indiana, Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, and Claire McCaskill of Missouri — who voted "no" only after Lieberman arrived to ensure the bill would advance.
 
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