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* The governor tweeted this out today…
For years, Illinois has spent more than it’s brought in, and it is unacceptable. That’s why we are working every day to grow the IL economy. pic.twitter.com/j5vOuLqEhr
— Bruce Rauner (@GovRauner) April 4, 2017
Good point.
* But check out this reply…
@GovRauner I'm just a dumb hillbilly but shouldnt you create a budget to fit your economy and not create an economy to fit a budget???
— Jake Brimberry (@brim0628) April 4, 2017
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 2:46 pm
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Jake Brimberry has won the internet for the day, congratulations sir (tips hat).
Comment by Gruntled University Employee Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 2:49 pm
Hooray, Jake!
Comment by Macbeth Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 2:53 pm
Dumb hillbilly. Prolly wears a $20 watch while he spouts his logical musings.
Comment by Carhartt Union Negotiating Team Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 2:53 pm
Agree with Jake. And I’d add, isn’t that how managing a nursing home works. Creating a budget around the business, not a business around the budget.
Comment by Mike Cirrincione Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 2:54 pm
Jake Brimberry,
That is Restaurant-quality.
Cannoli for you.
Oswego Willy
Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 2:55 pm
It’s a non sequitur. Budget should fit what income is, not the economy.
Comment by Fav Hum Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 2:56 pm
Just remember that after making millions as a businessman in Illinois all those years, candidate Rauner, when asked, could not point to a single Illinois job he had created during those years he was making so much money.
Comment by Joe M Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:02 pm
Likely thoughts by Governor Rauner relating to Mr. Brimberry twitter response to him: Yes that is why you are a broke dumb hillbilly and I am a billionaire, it is called the vision thing. Too bad I can’t actually say that because you are probably part of my base voters.
Comment by Rod Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:02 pm
Yeah, non-sequitor because the Job Creators(tm) are excited about term limits! /snark
Comment by Skeptic Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:02 pm
Dear Bruce: Please stop with the campaign stuff. It is way past time that you started governin’. Please .. . DO YOUR JOB
Comment by East Central Illinois Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:03 pm
Can’t change the past. How about changing the present?
Comment by Earnest Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:04 pm
Jake - you nailed it !
Comment by illini Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:08 pm
Illinois Spending vs Job Growth? Does our Governor have an opinion about whether it’s colder in the winter or on the lake?
Talk about missing the point.
He needs to concern himself with expenditures and revenues. That’s what is causing the backlog of bills to get out of control. You can’t “grow the economy” to the point that it pays off our backlog and improves the funding ratio of our pension systems. Unless, of course, all 13 million Illinoisans get a massive raise this year. Pro-tip: That won’t happen.
Comment by Tron Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:09 pm
===For years, Illinois has spent more than it’s brought in, and it is unacceptable.===
“And if you give me four more years as your governor, I might consider starting to do something about it maybe.”
Comment by Ducky LaMoore Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:11 pm
Fire Leslie Munger and hire Jake Brimberry, he has a much better handle on the concept of a budget than anyone surrounding Rauner currently.
Comment by AC Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:12 pm
The flag on the summit should be red.
Comment by City Zen Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:14 pm
If he wants to get a handle on spending, he might want to get a budget. And if he wants to cut spending, he might want to advocate for specific changes in statute to get there.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:19 pm
“Create a budget” is code for “pass a tax hike”. Gov. Rauner is thinking big, about the structure of our economy - and how that PRECLUDES balanced budgets. Anyone who says raising taxes will fix IL’s problems is selling you snake oil. Must be about GROWTH
Comment by John Rawlss Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:24 pm
So what has Rauner done for job growth?
He spent two years starving DCEO of resources and personnel in an effort to create an unaccountable P3 ( public private partnership)
Almost all effort at DCEO was expended on this
Intersect Illinois was created and promptly
FAILED
They only in truth raised 2 million
Only have two employees left
Because they failed to achieve 501c3 status necessary for a P3
Basically they have been illegally doing business on behalf of the state.
There is even a House committee investigating them!
Rauner has almost entirely failed at attracting jobs!
Look I can’t even add up the EDGE agreements because my little calculator doesn’t go up that high.
Hundreds of millions in Corporate Welfare
Rauner never put a bit of effort into his own economic agency DCEO. DCEO is a ghost town with the exception of made up jobs for Munger employees.
Rauner has had two years to do a lot of things to bring in jobs
Why not do the doable?
Because it’s never been about growth or jobs.
It’s about willful destruction
Buy it
Break it
Sell it
Comment by Honeybear Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:26 pm
===Must be about GROWTH===
Partly, yes. But you can’t grow your way out of this hole. Not possible.
Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:29 pm
===The flag on the summit should be red.===
The mountain of spending should be a crater of debt.
Comment by 47th Ward Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:29 pm
What exactly is the governor doing every day to “grow the economy?”
Running up billions in unpaid bills to Illinois vendors, causing layoffs and closings?
Gutting higher ed, forcing more layoffs and students to pursue their education out of state?
Neglecting to come up with any sort of capital plan, after more than two years in office?
Those seem like precisely the things a governor would do to inflict damage to the economy.
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:34 pm
Note to Readers: Graph begins when Pension Ramp turns up. Much of the 66% increase is due to known, planned, delayed Pension Payments.
Comment by Yeah Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:37 pm
==“Create a budget” is code for “pass a tax hike”.==
Mathematics doesn’t dispute that. The tax increase already happened, we just haven’t paid the bill yet.
Comment by AC Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:52 pm
If my calc is correct, 66% spending increase over 17 years is roughly 3% per year. I would guess a good portion of that increase is due to the pension ramp.
Comment by Name/Nickname/Anon Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 3:57 pm
According to Rauner, shouldn’t the tax increase have been a ‘massive job killer’. And yet total jobs grew, although slowly. Shouldn’t the number of jobs have grown quickly after the tax increase expired? What does this chart prove?
Comment by Quizzical Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 4:00 pm
==“Create a budget” is code for “pass a tax hike”==
Oh my god, now the basic idea that enterprises should be run on budgets is a liberal conspiracy. You guys have lost it.
Comment by Arsenal Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 4:08 pm
Stop with the commercials - we need a Budget!! You let this go too long. Not a good move– just do your job– the budget sign it or let the grand budget go thru.
Comment by WWGD Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 4:24 pm
How much is the Governor’s office (or agencies under his control) spending on travel for the Governor’s staff to be in Springfield for session? I thought he was going to make Springfield the headquarters for state government.
Comment by Sigh Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 4:30 pm
I hope someone finds Jake and buys that man a drink.
Also, the flag on the summit should be upside down.
Comment by K Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 4:32 pm
Now Jake sounds like a fiscal conservative.
Comment by blue dog dem Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 4:35 pm
Below is a link from BLS that allows you to track Illinois employment for any range of years from 1976 to current day.
Illinois’ historic employment peak was 6.34M in Nov. 2007 (thanks Blago, Jones and Madigan! if you believe the Raunerbots snake oil logic).
Employment declined in the Great Recession to 5.86M in Nov. 2009.
Current preliminary report for Feb. 2017 is 6.18M employed.
https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet
Comment by wordslinger Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 4:43 pm
@NickName- you would guess wrong. Quinn was the first to actually pay the full pension payment and that was six years ago I believe.
Comment by JS Mill Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 4:57 pm
Jake for Governor!
Comment by Been there, done that Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 5:03 pm
Jake seems like more of a fiscal conservative than Rauner is. Per Jake’s statement, the Illinois budget should be reduced significantly to match the Illinois economy. The total expenditures and obligations (based on the State budgets I’ve found online during the Quinn and Rauner years) have basically increased beyond GDP growth or inflation every year. No way to grow out of this one. Significant cuts and (hopefully) some growth need to happen.
Comment by BK Bro Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 5:36 pm
JSM, every Governor since Thompson has made the full, legally required pension payments. Edgar and Ryan made full payments as required by the original ramp. Blagojevich paid part of FY 03 in cash, the rest with borrowing. FY 04 was all borrowed. FY05 was paid in cash on the original ramp. FY06 and 07 were cut $1billion each and the ramp was “reset.” FY08 was paid in cash on the new ramp; that budget was almost done without Blagojevich after his humiliating GRT ideer. Quinn started in FY09, which was paid in full in cash. His remaining years were all paid in full, 4 in cash, 2 borrowed. I couldn’t tell you what Rauner has paid or how.
Comment by Arthur Andersen Tuesday, Apr 4, 17 @ 9:57 pm
Gross state product is also up about two-thirds since 2000. So state spending hasn’t moved much, as a share of what we all produce. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ILNGSP
Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Apr 5, 17 @ 8:13 am
Sounds like most of you agree that the Democrats have for years created a budget that does not fit our economy! Now that Rauner wants to fix that by paring the budget AND increasing revenue through more jobs you just can’t wrap your heads around it. That is why this state is so messed up!
Comment by DaMayor Thursday, Apr 13, 17 @ 4:52 pm
A little income tax increase back in 2001 to match Indiana’s then rate of 3.4% would have saved a lot of grief. But clearly it is more important that the ILGOP position itself as the party of no tax increases, no matter what. The future is now.
BTW, how much are Brucie’s friends making off all that debt?
Comment by James Knell Tuesday, Apr 18, 17 @ 4:02 pm
===A little income tax increase back in 2001 to match Indiana’s then rate of 3.4% would have saved a lot of grief. ===
Or in 2003, when our Democratic governor refused to do it. George Ryan even offered to pass a tax hike for him, but RRB said no way.
Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Apr 18, 17 @ 4:04 pm