Posted on 10/06/2014 3:34:13 AM PDT by rellimpank
If you're an Illinoisan who isn't on a political payroll — meaning you won't have a fat six-figure pension like many of our public officials — you'll likely spend this last month before the Illinois governor's election in deep contemplation.
Democratic incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn and businessman Bruce Rauner, the Republican, are in a daily knife fight, but if you're wise, you might also spend this time asking yourself these eternal questions:
•Since I don't have a government pension, what kind of sauce will I put on my dry dog food to make it tasty when I'm old?
•Would bottled Worcestershire do the trick, or should I use something spicy, like a dash or two of Sriracha?
Other questions abound. Unfortunately, we opinionists ha
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California, Illinois, Maryland.... these ‘deep blue’ states are so financially, uh..., f***ed, I don’t see any alternative other than to get out. But if you’re a farmer in downstate Illinois, or the San Joaquin Valley, I know it’s almost impossible to just get up and move.
Include NJ in that group; the cost of living here is sky-high to employ our government caste, and the jobs that made that workable before are gone. Private-sector employers and workers are fleeing in droves, being replaced by trafficked foreigners to fill housing, classrooms, and Wal-Mart aisles...
Yet another gubernatorial election where the two candidates are like two peas in a pod.
—for whatever reason, does for me and Trib doesn’t even want me to subscribe-—
can’t read it, am not paying
Chumbolone-I think I saw that on a menu at an Italian restaurant once. Is it good?
It means chump or dope. Several IQ points below goombah.
So glad I don’t have to read the Trib for local news anymore.
Leave the Chumbolone, Take the cannoli........
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