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If the $1.4 billion in budget cuts to social programs stand, the blame falls squarely on the House, said Senate President (and Blago buddy) Emil Jones. "We have to have a balanced budget," Jones said Thursday. "I'm not going to get involved in playing silly games and giving false hopes to people when the money isn’t there. I support many of the programs that got cut. But we in the Senate also supported the revenue to support the budget. That’s why we passed the revenue to support the budget in May. Now, if the House was genuinely sincere about passing those programs, then they in turn would pass the revenue to support it." The House voted to override the governor's budget cuts, but Jones says that he won't let the same happen.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan had a different take on the cuts. “We won’t be able to fulfill our constitutional, statutory or ethical obligations to the state,” Madigan told Crain's. “We’ll have fewer resources to help people.” Noting that her office could see cuts up to 25 percent, she said that her office is involved in “a very labor-intensive” suit against mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp, and that cuts now mean that the state may not be able to continue working on cases such as identity theft.
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I dunno, identity theft takes precedence over lawsuits against mortgage companies, the operations of which were blatant yet ignored throughout the duration.
I am disgusted to think that time and money, which apparently are in short supply, are being wasted going after Countrywide when the results will not get people's homes back, put Countrywide management in jail or pay restitution in any proper way.
I know it has been said a thousand times before but man...what a bunch of losers we have running this state. You always think in the back of your mind that it can't get worse yet they always do something stupid like this. One can only hope all these dumb asses get voted out. This is beyond stupid.