Saturday, October 4, 2008
State has mountain of unpaid bills
This article is about the huge amount of bills that the state has not paid. The Illinois government does not have the money to pay all the bills that it has. They are still trying to pay bills from July, it is not October. The article says that it will only get worse but of the terrible state of the economy. Also not helping is that last year's Medicaid bill was just paid in July which added a lot to the backup of bills. This affects everyone in Illinois not just the people that the government owes money too. The people who are not receiving the money they usually do from the government are having to cut programs all over the state in order to save money. This is a nasty situation and the solution to this is very difficult. Also there will keep being a backlog of bills because the economy is so bad and the government is in debt.
Illinois representatives change bailout vote
This article talks about how when the bailout went through a second time there were three Illinois representatives that changed their vote. They thought that the revised bill was good and choose to support it. There were six that did not change their vote. They felt that the bill was not adequate. The ones that changed their vote still weren't entirely happy with it but thought that something needed to be done and the second bill was better than the first. The fact that this bill passed and it was people in the Illinois government that helped pass it affects everyone who lives in Illinois. The current economic crisis affects everyone. Hopefully the bailout will help and our representatives did the right thing.
Immigrant voting push strong
This article is about the recent push by immigrant groups to register immigrants to vote. There has been a campaign throughout Illinois to register Latino voters to sway votes in the Electoral College. This is relavent because it affects the Illinois government as well as the national government. They are going to vote to put people in office who will create the immigration policies that they want. They are really trying to make sure they are represented the way that they want to be.
Did Rezko pay for Gov's house rehab?
There is a federal inverstigation going on that is looking into Blagojevich's new $90,000 home. The feds think that recently convicted Tony Rezko paid for the governor's house. The work was done just after Rezko got his friends contracts for state projects. Rezko has started to cooperate with the feds recently so the thruth about this porject might come out soon. There are lots of hints of evidence that show that there is a very good chance that corruption had a big role to play in thius project. This is relavent because the Illinois government is not in a good place right now. There are many investigations involving coruption surrounding our governor. We should not have to deal with a corupt governor. We should be able to trust our government and believe that they are doing things in our best interest not in the interest of themselves.
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