[ConservativeMind]

In a certain Central Illinois small city, the mayor has been rerouting federal road funds to heavily subsidize a huge public bus expansion (it would need 6-fold more to ride to break even) and the rest went to making a bunch of bicycle paths by making a lot of critical streets now one-way, with a lot of each road becoming bike paths. Their city road manager said four years ago that to bring the average street quality back up to “fair” from “poor to very poor” would take spending seven times the current amount for ten years. They reduced their annual maintenance spending. At least the bicycle paths are new.

This same mayor let a friendly company manage the local civic center for ten years, never auditing for fraud. That management firm’s employees now have over 100 felony counts levied at them in the past two months. He didn’t uncover the fraud—a local Tea Party retired CPA found it and authorities beyond the city issued the counts.

Taxes have been going up non-stop while trips to Japan are charged to taxpayers. They keep trying to revitalize their downtown with huge spending allotments, to no avail. So raise the taxes again, because they just don’t have enough money. You see, it is failing only because it doesn’t have enough money targeted—not that it isn’t worth everything spent. Every community needs a large, publicly owned laser tag facility built onto a new unneeded library.

I could go on. That is normally conservative Illinois that has allowed every level of government to go to complete rot. Federal dollars do come back, but are wasted on pipe dreams, leaving deficits like the large potholes everywhere around town. So they have to raise taxes and then people lime Skypilot exclaim that, rather than fix their local mess or leave it behind, the country can’t do anything to limit his long-standing deductions (which allow him to comfortably live among the rot he so loves).

I’m sick of it. We are leaving this mess behind for a better state.

Maybe Skypilot and others should put up or shut up, if they insist on loving their feces-covered locales.

[SkyPilot]

Maybe Skypilot and others should put up or shut up, if they insist on loving their feces-covered locales.

Feces-covered locales?

What the heck is wrong with you? First, a corrupt politician here or there does not justify millions of us getting screwed by the Federal government, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell. Secondly, I am sick to death with people on this board trashing where other people live, work, raise their children, worship, take care of their parents, and any other facet of their lives. You don’t like other states? Fine. It’s not like Americans, veterans, Christians, or Conservatives live in those states you hate so much. Wait? In fact, they do.

Take your parochial bigotry and hatred somewhere else.