Tag: $15 minimum wage

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

The Governed did not Consent:

By: Diane Benjamin https://illinoiscomptroller.gov/financial-reports-data/data-sets-portals/chartsgraphs/asylum-seekers The Illinois Comptroller’s office lists spending on “asylum seekers” at: $478,000,000 + $144,026,636 = $622,028,636. Meanwhile the Illinois budget doesn’t balance. The House and Senate have one last lame duck session. Disastrous legislation frequently materializes because post election they don’t care about your opinion. Pritzker wants to keep every illegal and […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Numerous things that don’t need their own story

By:  Diane Benjamin If you didn’t attend the showing of “Scramble the SeaWolves” last night at the Normal Theater, you missed a great movie.  It told the story of Navy helicopter crews who provided defense in Vietnam.  Didn’t know the Navy had helicopters?  Until this movie most people didn’t.  The SeaWolves formed out of need […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Employers lose rights, but this is Illinois

By:  Diane Benjamin It isn’t a surprise Illinois government wants to tell employers how to run their businesses.  Illinois is not participating in the prosperity much of the rest of the country is experiencing because of Illinois government. Now with the legalization of cannabis, drug testing employees could get them sued.  Employees have rights to […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

$15 minimum wage disaster

By:  Diane Benjamin Democrats have lost their minds: High school kids will never have a job again.  Businesses aren’t going to pay $15 an hour to a kid who has never worked before.   They have to be trained to show up on time and actually work the entire time they are clocked in for.  They […]