Post by ck4829 on Dec 18, 2016 12:47:38 GMT
You apply for a job, making lots of promises about working hard for the good of your employer, the citizens of Illinois. The job pays more than your average employer makes, especially when you consider that it is part time.
You spend a few days at most in the Capitol during the spring. Your one primary task is to pass a budget to guide the state through the next fiscal year. You and your fellow "workers" fail at this important task.
The lack of a budget puts many of your employers, especially the most needy, at great risk. They have to cut expenses, lay off workers, turn away those in need and generally suffer through the crisis your inaction has created.
Now you are asked to get in line with all the others waiting on state money, waiting because of your failure to pass a budget. You feel this is unfair, so you go to court and demand that you be put at the head of the line, showing no regard for those truly in need for lack of a budget.
If you had a real job in the private sector, this kind of performance would not only result in you not being paid, but also being summarily dismissed.
I submit you will find the vast majority of your employers would agree with this letter.
www.sj-r.com/opinion/20161217/letter-lawmakers-would-be-fired-in-private-sector-for-their-inaction
This can be said about a lot of legislatures.
You spend a few days at most in the Capitol during the spring. Your one primary task is to pass a budget to guide the state through the next fiscal year. You and your fellow "workers" fail at this important task.
The lack of a budget puts many of your employers, especially the most needy, at great risk. They have to cut expenses, lay off workers, turn away those in need and generally suffer through the crisis your inaction has created.
Now you are asked to get in line with all the others waiting on state money, waiting because of your failure to pass a budget. You feel this is unfair, so you go to court and demand that you be put at the head of the line, showing no regard for those truly in need for lack of a budget.
If you had a real job in the private sector, this kind of performance would not only result in you not being paid, but also being summarily dismissed.
I submit you will find the vast majority of your employers would agree with this letter.
www.sj-r.com/opinion/20161217/letter-lawmakers-would-be-fired-in-private-sector-for-their-inaction
This can be said about a lot of legislatures.