[eggman]

State workers won't be picking up road kill, or cutting the grass or picking up trash along highways and interstates. They're still being paid, however.

So what are these government workers being paid to do? Sit around drinking coffee in the garage?

I happened to see an investigative report on the local news (Cleveland) a couple of days ago. They were following city workers in their city vehicles as they spent an hour or more parked in various places reading the paper, having lunch or coffee in the vehicle with the engine running. I don't doubt that the same thing goes on in IL. Run out that fuel budget and they get to sit around because there's no gas for them to go out and work.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Sit around drinking coffee in the garage?

Hey, I wouldn't mind doing that. However, that's no way to run a railroad. I'd just send them home until the emergency appropriation came through.