Illinois’s Quinn Says Budget-Cutting Governors Have It Wrong

Bloomberg reports:

For governors cutting education and health care and going after public-sector employees to balance budgets, here’s a message from Illinois Governor Pat Quinn: You’re wrong. Not mistaken, not misinformed.

“Just plain wrong,” said Quinn, 62, during a March 22 interview in his Chicago office. “I don’t buy into all these radical cuts in government as a way to make life better for ordinary, everyday people.”

For Governor Quinn ,a cut in government spending is a decrease in the increase. The 2010 Census numbers showed Illinois was one top ten slowest growing states in America with a growth rate of 3.3%, well below the national average of 9.7%. With Pat Quinn's thinking prevalent in Illinois: you can be assured that Illinois will continue to underperform in population growth. At least the 14,000 public school teachers (that make over $100,000 a year) ,in Illinois, know that Pat Quinn is on their side.