Only in America
California is not the only state with a daunting budget crisis. There’s also our neighbor, Illinois. From a St. Louis P-D blog report on yesterday’s deadline-imminent negotiations, Kevin McDermott offered this slice of life:
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn will address a hastily assembled joint session of the Legislature at 3:30 p.m. today, Illinois House officials just announced minutes ago.
Minutes later, officials announced that eight protestors — part of a mass of human-services supporters who have been lobbying in the Capitol for an end to the budget crisis — were just arrested. We don’t have details yet.
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UPDATE, 3 P.M.: The eight arrestees — all women from the Chicago area, one of them 71 years old and another 74 — were removed by Capitol security for trespassing during a hallway rally in which they were shouting “raise taxes now.” They’re now standing on a sidewalk outside the Capitol. They told me they were briefly detained in the basement security offices of the Statehouse, then released with a warning that they will be criminally charged if they come back into the building today.
Grandmas for Taxes. Fascinating.
One Response to “Only in America”
Cyanide Nation is leading not only to brain death but now to physical or at least fiscal death.
Watch the stampede for bailouts from Washington (merely to continue the same wrongful ways) begin.
Maybe that's why so much “stimulus” money was withheld from spending rather than misspent already.