‘Slashes with a dull ax’

August 29th, 2008 at 09:14am Wally Haas

That’s what State Rep. Bill Black, R-Danville, called the cuts that Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office acknowledged yesterday.

Two dozen state parks and historic sites, 450 jobs, big losses at DCFS. That’s pretty high-profile stuff. Makes me wonder whether these are the best cuts that could be made or the best cuts to make headlines so the gov can pitch his revenue-generating ideas.

I can see the rationalizations now … “things are so bad we have to expand gambling, sell the lottery, close tax loopholes, etc. to get by.”

The gov will blame the House (and Mike Madigan) for not passing those measures in the first place.  So much for that hug.

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