Dennis Byrne is calling us chumps:
That’s what Illinois voters are. We got a healthy reminder of that today when we were treated to the latest outrage about an old, old story—the sweet deal that some insiders wrangled from state government to build a fancy hotel in Springfield. The deal was that if the hotel didn’t make a profit, the insiders wouldn’t have to pay off a state loan they got to help build the palace.Read the rest . . .
Naturally, the hotel failed, the state ended up taking it over and the investors got away without having to pay back almost all of the dough. That’s a $15.5 million loan, from us taxpayers.
Chumps. Patsies. Suckers. That’s what we are. This deal has been haunting us since it was worked out in 1985 at the highest levels in state government. It raised “serious questions” at the time, but we voters, blockheads that we are, still go about electing the same kinds politicians. In the latest episode, state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias released a report that the insiders “improperly diverted” nearly $2 million from the loan for personal use, including such things as buying caramel apples.
1 comment:
We really are chumps!!! And I don't even like caramel apples.
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