What George Bush and Rod Blagojevich share
From a speech by Edwin Eisendrath at Chicago City Club
GEORGE BUSH AND ROD BLAGOJEVICH HAVE A COUPLE OF SHARED HABITS WE NEED TO SHED.It's a pretty good speech. My ideal would be a Brady Eisendrath match up. Here's some more,
FIRST, THEY NAME THEIR LAWS. NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND. ALL KIDS. THIS IS A SURE SIGN THAT SOMETHING’S AMISS. A LAW ISN’T A LIKE A DOG THAT YOU ARE GOING TO CALL WHEN IT’S TIME FOR A WALK. IT IS A FACT THAT THE ALL KIDS LAW CONTAINED FEWER WORDS THAN THE PRESS RELEASE THAT ACCOMPANIED IT. WHEN MORE TIME GOES INTO THE MARKETING OF A LAW THAN INTO ITS SUBSTANCE THEN GENUINE AND IMPORTANT GETS REPLACED BY BLOW DRIED AND INEFFECTIVE.
BECAUSE THINGS ARE GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION, WE SOMETIMES FORGET THAT ILLINOIS SITS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST MARKETPLACE. IT MAINTAINS ONE OF THE MOST MAGNIFICENT TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURES EVER CREATED BY MAN. WE HAVE SOME OF THE FINEST RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD, CREATING THAT RAREST OF COMMODITIES, NEW KNOWLEDGE. OUR DIVERSE WORKFORCE MEANS THERE IS LITERALLY NO POSSIBLE CALCULATION OF THE NUMBER OF IDEAS AVAILABLE TO MANAGERS. WE HAVE SO MANY STRENGTHS.I just wish we could call him Ed but I guess that's an example of my pettiness.
AND YET WE ARE HELD BACK. HELD BACK ARTIFICIALLY BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT AND THE PETTINESS OF OUR POLITICS.
OUR ECONOMY IS 35TH IN GROWTH. WE ARE FALLING BEHIND ALL OUR NEIGHBORS. WISCONSIN, INDIANA, IOWA, MISSOURI AND KENTUCKY ARE GROWING FASTER THAN ILLINOIS. WE ARE FALLING BEHIND THE OTHER LARGE STATES - NEW YORK, CALIFORNIA, NEW JERSEY, TEXAS, AND PENNSYLVANIA.
NOT ONLY ARE WE GROWING MORE SLOWLY THAN OUR NEIGHBORS AND PEERS, WE CONTINUE TO DIG DEEPER INTO FINANCIAL PERIL. DESPITE 10 CONSECUTIVE QUARTERS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH IN AMERICA, GROWTH THAT HAS RESULTED IN SURPLUSES IN SEVERAL STATES, ILLINOIS HAS THE NATION’S LARGEST UNFUNDED PENSION LIABILITIES AND A GROWING PERSISTENT STRUCTURAL DEFICIT.
THE PLAIN FACT IS OUR STATE IS BROKE, BUT OUR PEOPLE ARE NOT.
cross posted at Bill Baar's West Side
UPDATE: Eric Zorn linked this post. Zorn also plugged Illinoize and fellow blogger Jill Stanek's posts as good reading.
7 comments:
i'd rather call him governor
that might be ok... we can still call him alderman,,, right?
WHY WAS HE YELLING THAT SPEECH?
I was thinking of retyping it into lowercase but didn't feel like taking the time.
Democrats need to start taking Eisendrath seriously, as hae may be the only hope to avoid losing the Governor's office again in November.
AND LINCOLN HAD A SECRETARY NAMED KENNEDY, WHILE KENNEDY HAD A SECRETARY NAMED LINCOLN.
I don't think Blagojevich has anything in common with Bush. Blagojevich is a Democrat who has done a good job of providing health care to many low income citizens, seniors, and disabled. He has provided well for the poor and I am happy with his new health insurance program for kids. Bush is the evil bastard AntiChrist who along with his evil and amoral Republican minions, who are taking money from the middle class, poor, and the social programs and giving it to the rich. He has involved us in a war that has destroyed another country, and is giving spending increasingly on the military and homeland security, who thinks it is more important to spy on its own citizens than actually do the job it was supposed to do, like when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
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