PAY RAISE FOR WALSH JR. WHILE STATE SITS AT 3RD WORST IN NATION FOR UNEMPLOYMENT!
Illinois currently has the 3rd worst unemployment in the nation, has billions in unpaid bills and Larry Walsh Jr. (D-IL Dist.86) just voted to give himself a pay raise - a 4.6% pay raise; when seniors living on Social Security ONLY received a 1.5% cost of living increase. The average median income across Illinois (not Joliet, not Will County, but across Illinois) is $56,000 (that is those lucky enough to be employed in this state) and Walsh Jr. voted to increase his pay, up-to earning about $70,000 per year.SNAP (food stamp - link card food assistance) rose during his 2 years in office as a State House Rep.:
"While the number of people using the program across the country rose 2.7 percent from February 2012 to February 2013, it rose 10.5 percent in Illinois, the highest of any state, according to an analysis by the Illinois Policy Institute."
People out of work. People can't afford food and Walsh Jr. needs a pay raise? Apparently he felt that our State going from 2nd worst in the nation - in unemployment - to 3rd worst in the nation, earned him a pay raise! Apparently so!
In addition, he doesn't work from June to November (barring a special session or veto session called by the Governor during this time). Do you get $70-k a year while having 4 months off? Not many of us do!
Shameful!
His vote to give himself a pay-raise can be seen here:
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/votehistory/98/house/09800SB0274_05302014_008000T.pdf
Thanks Walsh Jr.... Living high off the taxpayer!
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| This is the declining median household income of the average American across the USA! |
