Posted on 04/14/2005 5:32:42 PM PDT by RWR8189
As Illinois politicians wheedle for an income tax increase to help grow the government payroll, a reader of this column, Scott Broehl, wrote me a letter.
His was a fascinating story about how government works, or doesn't.
It involves the Illinois Adopt A Highway program, one of the million--or is that 10 million?--government programs. This involves a road in Arlington Heights and a group that should be barred from adopting anything, even a chunk of asphalt.
"I couldn't believe it," Broehl, a retired homicide detective, told me Wednesday. "All these politicians are grandstanding. They grandstand on everything. But then this happens.
"So the other day I'm out there on Golf Road and I see the Adopt A Highway sign. It's a state sign. And I see the name of the group that adopted the highway. They let these people adopt highways? It's sick. So I took a photograph and sent it to you."
Until we started asking questions about the Adopt A Highway program, this is how it worked: You applied to the Illinois Department of Transportation, it gave you a stretch of highway to clean up as a highway volunteer and provided plastic litter bags for cleanup and safety vests.
In exchange, the adopters received recognition in the form of a state highway sign, planted right there on their adopted 2-mile chunk of highway, for all drivers to see. There were more than 10,200 individuals in about 1,700 various groups having adopted around 3,400 miles of highway.
"That's all changed now. We're suspending the program and we're going to have to study this," said Tim Martin, the director of IDOT. "I can't believe it either. I'm sick about it. I can tell you I lost my cool. I have a temper. And I don't think the governor will be
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Is there any possibility Michael Jackson could be found guilty, transferred to Illinois, and be forced to collect trash on the NAMBLA freeway?
And what specifically is wrong with the National Association of Marlon Brando Lookalikes?
I must admit the prospect of allowing the KKK to adopt a highway looks marginally better all of a sudden.
Gee, Officer, I didn't mean to run over him but I dropped my cellphone on the floorboards and was trying to retrieve it...
"Gee, Officer, I didn't mean to run over him but I dropped my cellphone on the floorboards and was trying to retrieve it..."
Officer "Well you dropped it 3 times in the last mile."
Look on the bright side, if you can call it that. When they are cleaning up their patch of road, locals can photograph them and distribute them to neighbors. Could help in tracking down a child killer/molester. Who knows, Hitlery might even be there.
Most of the time these "adopters" just pay money anyway, they don't clean it themselves.
I hope their stretch of highway is not adjacent to the stretch kept up by the Boy Scout Troop!
I would love to use them to mob up the street. Ahhhh dipping their heads into a bucket.
So, let me get this straight (pun intended).....we have a highway devoted to and named for an organization that promotes and practices unlawful behavior - sex with the underage boys? What's next? Highway adoption by the American Pyromaniacs Educational Society (APES)?
I cant even believe such an organization could exist in open daylight.
O'Reilly has a guy on now that supports some pedophile prison inmates that want to marry each other.
So,....was it the hershey highway?
Filing under more examples of endless government stupidity. Unbelievable. Or maybe all too believable....
Somebody (Chappelle, perhaps?) had a great quip about when the Klan tried to adopt a section of highway:
Of course, they'll only pick up the white trash...
IDOT = IDIOT
A new facet of the "gay adoption" agenda.
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