Illinois state legislators took a brief respite from fine tuning their "Unconstitutional Firearm Registration Scheme".... excuse me, " Assault Weapons Ban", to address the notion that the endless grift in IL politics isn't making the Bentley payments anymore. So they voted themselves a 16% pay raise, in a special Sunday session. This is on top of a 10% COLA raise earlier in 2022. This raise is for Governor, Cabinet leaders, Senate and House members.
Sen. Elgie Sims, D-Chicago, reiterated that the raises were meant to help Illinois attract “the best and the brightest.”
........I would love for all of us to be able to be wealthy,” Sims said. “That's just not the case.”
Wait.....what? This member of the party of participation trophies, and not keeping score because "winners and losers" might kick someone in the feelz...... the party that screams for Equity; equal outcomes, not equal opportunity.....that lectures us that intentions are of the utmost importance, not results, says this? I'm confused. Is he saying:
A. "The level of recompense in IL politics has, so far, only attracted a boatload of s**theads, so it needs to be raised".
B. " I'm an egalitarian, and the important job that I spend my time not doing, should pay enough to keep us swells economically insulated from you peasants, what with your stagflation and economic downturns.
C. "I'm a big racist, and I recognize that in every endeavor, there are participants possessing a level of intelligence, education, rationale, and motivation that enable them to succeed where others fail. To adapt and overcome, all while recognizing the inherent value of the humans affected by the endeavor. Furthermore, I acknowledge that the best person for the position may not be a POC, or a woman, or an alphabet soup activist, or non-binary, or gender #45 on the list of 57. Then again, one of those might be exceptional.
But I'm still a big racist, misogynistic, terrorist for even considering the possibility of that".
Help me sort this out, please. My brain....she hurts.
Sen. Elgie Sims, D-Chicago, reiterated that the raises were meant to help Illinois attract “the best and the brightest.”
........I would love for all of us to be able to be wealthy,” Sims said. “That's just not the case.”
Wait.....what? This member of the party of participation trophies, and not keeping score because "winners and losers" might kick someone in the feelz...... the party that screams for Equity; equal outcomes, not equal opportunity.....that lectures us that intentions are of the utmost importance, not results, says this? I'm confused. Is he saying:
A. "The level of recompense in IL politics has, so far, only attracted a boatload of s**theads, so it needs to be raised".
B. " I'm an egalitarian, and the important job that I spend my time not doing, should pay enough to keep us swells economically insulated from you peasants, what with your stagflation and economic downturns.
C. "I'm a big racist, and I recognize that in every endeavor, there are participants possessing a level of intelligence, education, rationale, and motivation that enable them to succeed where others fail. To adapt and overcome, all while recognizing the inherent value of the humans affected by the endeavor. Furthermore, I acknowledge that the best person for the position may not be a POC, or a woman, or an alphabet soup activist, or non-binary, or gender #45 on the list of 57. Then again, one of those might be exceptional.
But I'm still a big racist, misogynistic, terrorist for even considering the possibility of that".
Help me sort this out, please. My brain....she hurts.