The governor of Illinois, a.k.a. Big Government Rauner, decided to throw a childish tantrum and let the state start a new fiscal year on July 1 without any budget at all.
If anybody deserves to get flak for his incapacity for bipartisan cooperation it’s Rauner. He just won’t negotiate with the state’s House of Representatives at all. Rauner is acting in an extremely tyrannical way, he is disregarding the democratic process, and is refusing to take any action at all to resolve the issue.
The state’s Supreme Court rejected Rauner’s pension reform. The House demonstrated why his budget is untenable and impractical. So Rauner got all pouty and decided to throw a tantrum and just not disburse any money to any state institutions in Illinois.
I swear, I’m yet to see a lazier, more disorganized, more overemotional politician with a shorter attention span. Rauner seems to have thought that a state could be run like a business: you give and order and everybody jumps to attention. But that’s simply not how democracy works. There are elected representatives, the courts, the voters, and you can’t just lord it over everybody all the time. Just a few months after getting elected, Rauner has run the state into a ditch and is doing nothing but throwing fits over the whole sorry mess.
If there are people around here who voted for Rauner (which I don’t believe because they’d have to be functionally illiterate), can you tell me what you were thinking when you saddled us with this corrupt, unstable freak?
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