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rampartd
(5,094 posts)Wow, we need more of this
https://youtube.com/shorts/BtZFstyTZlU
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chowder66
(12,536 posts)That's Illinois State Rep. Mike Bost, a Republican representing Murphysboro, who lost his cool after receiving a new version of pension-reform legislation. He was railing about process and about the enormous power given to the speaker.
At one point, Bost even channels Moses saying "Let my people go!"
What's not addressed in the tirade is the complex problem facing the state. It has a large debt and an underfunded pension program for public employees.
According to the Sun Times, the bill Bost threw in the air pushed to "force state workers and retirees to either surrender their automatic 3-percent pension increases or give up their state health insurance..."
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/05/30/154005433/video-let-my-people-go-illinois-state-rep-loses-cool-on-house-floor