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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

We have Phoenix friends who have a summer house on one of the Great Lakes 
somewhere outside of Chicago.  I'm not sure if it is actually in Illinois.  I 
know they fly into Chicago and drive to the lake; they have grown children in 
Chicago.  What is going on here and in Illinois with state budgets is 
happening nationwide.  I have a feeling that the country will soon quit even 
pretending that all of the newly printed money will ever be paid back.  That 
should lead to monetizing the debt, but who knows?  With our military power , 
I guess we could always make new rules................

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--- On Fri, 12/19/08, Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Moods
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 9:26 AM
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:46 AM, bobf
> <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Was Illinois budget balanced before his term?  What is
> the big business (other than politics and sports).  I've
> always thought of Illinois in terms of commodities, but,
> people still think of the South in terms of cotton when most
> cotton is grown out west.  What does Illinois need to do to
> get in the black.  Here in AZ, I don't know what we can
> do, we have always been based on growth and construction. 
> Gov. Neapolatano (sp) is leaving us a couple of billion in
> debt as she goes to H*meland S*curity.
> >
> Downstate, ag is huge of course, but we also have ag
> industry (ADM,
> for one), Caterpillar, and others (such as the Saturn plant
> in
> Bloomington and various small manufacturing companies),
> many
> engineering firms that get their business worldwide (I did
> lots of
> editing and proposal for three of them), and a bunch of
> drug companies
> in the Chicago area. Plus, Chicago is the national
> headquarters for
> many businesses.
> 
> To get into the black, Governor Rod should have raised the
> state
> income tax a long time ago. His alternative was to shoot
> people on
> Medicaid and shut down the schools. Our state government is
> actually
> pretty svelte, at least compared with other states. Working
> as I do in
> the state capital, I know lots of people who work in other
> agencies.
> Everyone has taken on the duties of one or two other
> people's jobs and
> we've all about reached the limit. Mostly, this is not
> causing small
> children to die except at Children and Family Services
> where abused
> children sometimes are murdered when they are sent back to
> their
> abusive families. The cost of providing health services has
> exploded
> everywhere, and that's killing every state government.
> 
> Marie
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