Thursday, January 19, 2006
Part 1 – Daily Herald Questionnaire – Why Are You Running and What Will You Do?
I said I wanted to fight stupidity.
“Wrong!” they said fairly loudly in unison.
You can imagine what the correct answer is. The Daily Herald asks whether a particular issue is the motivating factor and what will be one’s “main priority.”
Incumbents are asked to outline their main contributions, initiatives led.
From challengers, the paper seeks “what contributions you would make?”
Specificity is asked concerning “what steps…would you pledge to reduce debt and ensure the state’s long-term financial stability?”
The simple answer to that is for the General Assembly to stop approving every vote-enticing idea that Governor Rod Blagojevich can come up with, to keep the budget flat and use increased revenues to pay down debt.
f course, that won’t make any of the special interest groups happy. But, increasing spending by about a billion dollars a year in troubled economy times is just plain stupid. (Opps, that word again. In my house, we give “X’s” when it is used.)
Read Part II tomorrow. It’s about corruption.
To return to McHenry County Blog, click here.
“Wrong!” they said fairly loudly in unison.
You can imagine what the correct answer is. The Daily Herald asks whether a particular issue is the motivating factor and what will be one’s “main priority.”
Incumbents are asked to outline their main contributions, initiatives led.
From challengers, the paper seeks “what contributions you would make?”
Specificity is asked concerning “what steps…would you pledge to reduce debt and ensure the state’s long-term financial stability?”
The simple answer to that is for the General Assembly to stop approving every vote-enticing idea that Governor Rod Blagojevich can come up with, to keep the budget flat and use increased revenues to pay down debt.
f course, that won’t make any of the special interest groups happy. But, increasing spending by about a billion dollars a year in troubled economy times is just plain stupid. (Opps, that word again. In my house, we give “X’s” when it is used.)
Read Part II tomorrow. It’s about corruption.
To return to McHenry County Blog, click here.
# posted by Cal Skinner : 10:45 AM
