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[KB723]

By Andrew Jones
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:45 EDT

Not many outside of Murphysboro, Illinois have heard of their State Representative Mike Bost (R) until Tuesday afternoon, who launched a major tirade in the Illinois House of Representatives over his chamber’s efforts at pension reform.

Bost disliked the reform bill endorsed by Gov. Pat Quinn and House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Ill.) that cleared a House committee earlier in the day. According to CBS Chicago, the bill would shift pension costs for public schools from the state to local school districts. Those districts would be forced to raise property taxes to fund the pension costs, which resulted in Bost representing the anger some Republican and downstate Democrats in Illinois are with the move.

“These damn bills that come out here all the damn time, come out here at the last second!” Bost said, as he knocked papers of the bill into the air. “I’ve got to figure out how to vote for my people! You should be ashamed of yourselves! I’m sick of it! Every year! We give power to one person! It was not made that way in the Constitution! He was around when it was written!”

Bost even compared the passing of the bill to the long-time dictatorship days of Egypt’s government and quoted The Bible’s Old Testament figure Moses.

“Now we give him – we’ve passed rules that stop each one of us! Enough! I feel like somebody trying to be released from Egypt! Let my people go!”

WATCH: Video from Youtube, from May 30, 2012.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/30/illinois-gop-state-rep-goes-on-epic-tirade-on-house-floor/

<a href="http://youtu.be/PhbRcDZiJJc" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://youtu.be/PhbRcDZiJJc</a>

"Holy Shit, it's nice to see an elected official who is human and just as Pissed Off as his Constituents!!!"

[lazloman]

I live in Chicago, so I heard about this. I don't know what all this guy was going on about, but the recent proposal to shift the burden of education to the local municipalities, is just insane. Actually, I think its really an attempt to destroy public education. The Dems are in on this as well. Everybody is struggling now. Municipalities just don't have the money for this and raising property taxes just won't cut it. We're living in a time where our politicians are actively trying to undermine every public institution in the country, not just schools. Its a shame and I fear for the future of this country.

[KB723]

Its a shame and I fear for the future of this country.

So do I lazloman, I was just happy to see he was furious...

[ThirdSection]

but the recent proposal to shift the burden of education to the local municipalities, is just insane.

I don't know how all the states fund education, but back when I was growing up in California, much of the funding came from property taxes raised from within the individual school districts.  All of that, of course, was rapidly drying up due to a hackneyed "tax revolt" referendum called Proposition 13 which passed in '79 which froze people's property taxes at 1979 levels.

Meanwhile, possibly due to the deteriorating public education system, especially in the inner cities, new prisons began to sprout like mushrooms in a cow pasture after a rainstorm, and no matter how many new prisons they built, there was never enough room for all the new inmates who kept getting sentenced under the increasingly tougher mandatory minimums and three-strikes laws designed to combat rising crime in the inner cities.

Now, if only they had funded the damn schools instead... 

[KB723]

Now, if only they had funded the damn schools instead...

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