An Illinois state representative who was caught on tape going off on his fellow legislators over the state's large budget gap appeared on Fox News Channel with anchor Bill Hemmer on Wednesday. There, he explained why he engaged in that tirade and lamented his state's pressing fiscal problems.
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Illinois state Rep. Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro) engaged in a fiery rant on the floor of the state House where he threw papers and screamed at his fellow representatives over the state's unfunded pension liabilities and Democrat-lead pension reform measures.
'These damn bills that come out here all the damn time, come out here at the last second,' screamed Bost. 'I've got to figure out how to vote for my people! You should be ashamed of yourselves! I'm sick of it!'
In an interview with Hemmer, Bost said that he doesn't 'normally act that way.'
'We're dealing with pension reform because of our large debt, which is tremendous,' said Bost. 'Unfortunately, at 7:40 we get a completely changed bill from the Speaker of the House that just decided on his own to create this bill. And it had a tremendous shift to the local taxpayers ' to local homeowners onto property tax.'
Hemmer clarified that the bill would shift responsibility for compensating for the state's debt by shifting the tax burden to downstate homeowners rather than the suburbs of Chicago.
Bost said that the pension issue is one symptom of a larger problem of Illinois' legislators spending beyond the state's means. Hemmer specified that Illinois is facing a 1.8 billion budget gap for FY2013.
'You can't continue to spend money you don't have,' said Bost. 'This issue is an issue that we, the Republicans, had taken a lead on. And all the sudden the rug had been pulled out from beneath us.'
Hemmer concluded by saying he thought Bost would be 'a lot of fun at a Chicago Bears game.'
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This is the political sewer that spawned Barack Obama. And the one he will return to when he goes back to his Rezko Estate mansion.
Richard J. Daley ,the #1 crook in the state, pulled a nasty trick to boost his pension way up, knowing the state is broke, and not a peep .
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Hemmer concluded by saying he thought Bost would be 'a lot of fun at a Chicago Bears game.'
Why should I be surprised at a Fake News head talking out of his a**.? He's a downstate hick nowhere near Chicago.
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Another gNOpig given the 'opportunity' to clarify his rants on Fox gNOpig Propaganda.
Is this part of the 'news' or gNOpig favorable coverage?
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And, if he's Downstate, he's a Cards fan.
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Since my city are the ones paying the majority of taxes on this stuff, it only makes sense that the rednecks down state chip in.
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Republican gets angry about public debt' Democrats get angry about him getting angry with the debt. At least one party knows we are in debt
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Great, so now Chicago Democrats are not only thieves they are bigots against their own citizens footing the bill for their incompetence. Way to go Democrats'
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