Chicagoist: State Government Too Busy Bickering To Govern

ophmarketing

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:27:58 -0600

Democrats have come up with a $1.8 billion capital program, which isn't quite the $34 billion the governor's pushing for. Quoth a Blago spokesman: "This House action puts us 1 percent closer to meeting our state's infrastructure needs." Wouldn't $1.8 billion be more like FIVE percent of $34 billion? No wonder they can't balance the budget. They can't even do basic math.

peteypants

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:19:14 -0600

it looks like blago's photographer also did the pictures for my junior high yearbook ...his photo also looked familiar: http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/10/06/virgin,1.jpg

oz115

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:12:39 -0600

I hope this hasn't been said already, but that picture of Blago looks eerily familiar: http://www.toxicshock.tv/news/wp-content/uploads/step_brothers_will_ferrell_john_reilly_comedy.jpg

matilda

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:36:33 -0600

Remember folks: These are the people who are giving themselves hefty pay raises while many of us citizens get by with "raises" that are less than inflation (assuming no pay cuts, of course), increased health-care costs and fears about whether we will have a job by the end of the year. These officials are getting richer while many of the people they are supposed to serve are getting poorer. And the people getting richer have done nothing to deserve their new money. And we, the taxpayers, are funding these undeserved raises. Never forget: We allow this to happen. These hopelessly corrupt and immoral hacks serve only at our pleasure. Even leaders as evil as Hitler and Stalin would have had a hard time ruling had they enjoyed no popular support, tacit or otherwise, for their regimes.

matty

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:17:41 -0600

Anyone want to start boostering for some mentally capable poiliticians?