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Got to spend some time on Thursday with the Clinton Generation Nation Advocacy Group. Nuclear power is very important piece of the Illinois overall energy program. Clinton Power Station’s employees are a valuable asset to our community and we appreciate all that you do.
I support a plan to require #55words from the Declaration of Independence to be memorized as part of US Constitution teaching and testing requirements for Illinois students. They are:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
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"And this is why public pension reform matters: 25.5% of Illinois’ spending is going to its state pension funds. Once the city (Chicago) has made it up to the top of its funding ramp, it will be spending 18% of its revenue on pension contributions, assuming its revenue projections are not overly optimistic. (See here for the contribution schedule — $2.2 billion in 2022 — and here for the revenue projection which I’ve increased by two years’ worth of inflation.) And these percentages could go higher if the state and city are forced to unwind the “Tier 2” pension cuts as a result of court cases or political pressure.
It should be obvious: pension reform is not about trying to fleece public employees and retirees."