Now let's turn our attention to a state that you would not think ordinarily was out of control, but it is. Illinois. 

Illinois, the birthplace of Lincoln. Solid Midwestern values. Chicago, City of Big Shoulders. A lot of diversity in that city, heavy traditional values used to dominate in Illinois. No longer. 

It's got a Republican governor, Bruce Rauner. All right. Yesterday, he signed the first ever sanctuary state law. So defying the federal government, defying ICE, not going to cooperate unless you get a warrant, if you get a detainer, not enough. Bruce Rauner doing this. Now, he's the guy that I hammered for years over the Chicago murders. Rauner hasn't done anything. He sits back there in Springfield and allows... right now we're up to more than 2500 people shot in Chicago this year alone. Twenty five hundred. That's more than Afghanistan. OK. And every single day... 466 homicides in Chicago. 

It's out of control. It's been out of control for at least six years and this governor has done nothing. Rahm Emanuel, you don't expect him to do anything because he's a very liberal mayor of Chicago and doesn't even understand what's happening and wouldn't do anything anyway, because it's going to take a very tough law enforcement approach to stop this murder. And he's not going to do that. 

But the state of Illinois is losing population. People are moving out. Why? Because the state is bankrupt. Like Puerto Rico, Illinois has a massive pension crisis. Unfunded pension liability for the state grew 25 percent in one year alone. It's at $250 billion, according to Moody's, which has downgraded Illinois bonds. 

Illinois may be the first state to declare bankruptcy Puerto Rico's not a state. OK. They don't have any money anywhere. As of June, the state had a record backlog of unpaid bills totaling Fifteen billion dollars in bills they haven't paid. You are not going to get the money from the folks even though they keep raising taxes in Illinois, which is why people are leaving. 

So what the deuce is going on? Let's bring in Michael Koolidge, who has his own radio program syndicated throughout the state of Illinois. Michael is a military vet and he's an independent kind of guy. I wanted to talk to him about how Illinois has gotten so out of control.