From retired Wonder Lake Marine, barber and government consolidation crusader Bob Anderson:
On Lots of Illinois Governments
Illinoisans deserve a local government that is efficient, effective and taxpayer friendly.
However, that is not possible as long as Illinois continues to have a nation leading structure of forty five types of local government, representing almost 9,000 units.
Taxpayers need elected officials who can fix this serious problem, but where are they?
Hundreds of candidates were involved in the November election, none made government consolidation or elimination a campaign issue.
Does anyone know why?
Didn’t these candidates know people are hurting?
Did they care?
If Illinois is ever going to be a state that is competitive and viable like Texas, the cost and size of Illinois’ government glut can no longer be overlooked.
There are three types of governments in Texas, a state that has 210,605 more square miles than Illinois, are county, municipal and special districts.
Source: Illinois’ Comptroller Office.
The forty five types of government in Illinois, a state that has 16,312,853 fewer residents than Texas are,
- counties,
- townships,
- municipalities,
- airport authority,
- ownship cemetery districts,
- community college districts,
- conservation districts,
- drainage districts,
- electric districts,
- exposition and civic center authority,
- fire protection districts,
- flood prevention districts,
- forest preserve districts,
- home equity program,
- hospital districts,
- housing authority,
- joint action water agency,
- mass transit districts,
- mosquito abatement districts,
- multi-township tax assessment districts,
- museum districts, natural gas agency,
- park districts,
- planning districts,
- port districts,
- public building commission,
- public health districts,
- public library districts,
- public water districts,
- rescue squad districts,
- river conservation districts,
- township road and bridge districts,
- road districts, sanitary districts,
- school districts,
- soil and water conservation districts,
- solid waste districts,
- special recreation districts,
- street lighting districts,
- surface water districts,
- tuberculosis sanatorium districts,
- water reclamation districts,
- water authority,
- water commission and
- water service districts.
This represents a total of 8,923 units of local government. Source: Civic Federation.
Excessive layers of governments are the cause of layered property taxes, bureaucratic redundancies, excessive expenditures, political corruption, abuse of powers and public difficulties to hold officials accountable.
45 types of government? 8,923 units of local government? A dragon to be slayed!
“May you have 45 different forms of Government”.
Is also an ancient Gypsy curse.
Townships are funny places.
My former township assessor Al Zielinski gave himself and his pals ‘cool’ under-assessments.
And we all know about Bobby Miller’s nepotistic arrangements hiring his wife and lazy son in laws at gigantic salaries. But they only showed up to get their checks until even that was too much for them and they went for direct deposit.
Townships are a real waste and license to steal.
Now we have a transgendered transvestite freak township clerk who wears high heals to meetings in McHenry Township.
These clown shows continue because the taxpayers don’t put their feet down.
Now that it has been proven there is no such thing as elections, why would anyone tout more of the same as a solution to anything? Criminals are in charge of everything from the bottom to the top.
…”The entire Congress is manufactured to rubberstamp military and Intel budgets, and to bow to the
bankers. And to draw your attention.”… Miles Mathis
Cindy, right you are!
Interesting article: https://www.unz.com/article/hey-red-states-ready-for-secession-yet/
Goofs like Monk and Al Z. won’t dare comments on the hard truths set forth in the above non-censored article.
Trumpstein (Make Israel First Again) moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem is merely another anti-Christ politician shithole taking advantage of American/Christian heresy and ignorance.
It is not that Sheldon Adelson gave him a giant shitload of casino moolah, but that Trumpstein reasoned that Christians are too stupid to know heresy and eschatological poison when it is consuming them.
Why is Trump so beholden to son-in-law Kushner, son of a felon? Kushner’s strategy was to axe Gen. Flynn, Bannon and Fatty Christie right off the bat. Yeah, I know, Christie, when he was a US Atty put his crooked daddy in prison.
The optics. The optics.
I agree Cindy.
Semper are you implying the jew Kushner is operating like Lincoln Project? Interesting observation. Funny the jew and his converted jew wife want nothing to do with the 2024 run. Does Ivanka have daddy issues? Could be since he tariffed Jina where her clothing lines are built by slave labor.
Oh and Bob I agree with your write up.
This state is so corrupt I doubt you will see it in your lifetime.
It’s like the 53 extension to 120.
I’m not on the Trump Train in the 24 primary unless he proves he has learned from his mistakes and there are no better Republican alternatives.
Semper Hi-Fi’s take is for the most part accurate.
Trump surrounded himself with too many Zionists, such as Kushner, who are more concerned with Israel than the US.
It’s supposed to be MAGA not MIGA.
I am however wondering how moving a US embassy to Jerusalem rises to the level of “American/Christian heresy and ignorance”?
For most people, that’s an issue that probably doesn’t matter much one way or the other.
OK Correcting, compare Trump taking over in 2017 to Musk taking over Twitter today.
Musk gave an ultimatum and amazingly after all the little spoiled censoring brats quit it works fine.
He assessed the board.
Trump had to assess the board in under 4 years with the non-stop attacks by the propagandists in the MSM.
I think he did a good job of that.
If you think putting him back in in 2024 is a bad idea why not think about why the Lincoln Project is whoring DeSantis on us.
1 of the 2 can be controlled. I prefer to vote for a known quantity on foreign and domestic policy.
Besides, FL does not want to lose DeSantis.
^Musk is doing some good things at Twitter but
1. Social media such as Twitter is still evil and we would be better without it.
2. Musk is still a gatekeeper; he won’t reinstate Alex Jones for example.
3. Musk gets funding from the U.S. government so you should not assume he is good.
4. His neuralink idea is about as dystopian as you can get.
To your point comparing Musk to Trump, I would say Musk is doing a much better job at getting bad actors within the organization to take a hike after just a few weeks compared to Trump who did *not* clean out the deep state for four years.
Trump should have made Steve Bannon his Chief of Staff.
The people in his inner circle need to be nationalist, not retreads from the Bush and Reagan days.
The Lincoln Project is against DeSantis.
I think you may be misinformed.
There are links on their website bashing DeSantis.
They made commercials against him.
They call him a tyrant and an egomaniac.
They said he wants to kill his opponents.
Lincoln Project has dropped its neocon leanings altogether and now operates as a pro-Democratic Party organization intent on destroying the Republican Party to save democracy.
There is no difference between them and the resistlibs.
They realized they could grift more by pandering to Democrats instead of disgruntled anti-Trump Republicans.
Same goes for Bill Krystol and arguably Joe Walsh too.
The only concerning thing I’ve heard about DeSantis is that he’s too cozy with Israel, but then so is Donald Trump.
I’ll concede your point that it would be bad if he left Florida, and if he were to run in 2028 he would still be fairly young so there’s that.
So Cindy is saying the whole country is corrupt. She and others like her should leave. Move to Russia or Cuba or North Korea. I am sick and tired of the uneducated; been in this country for 5-6 generations, and no one college graduate among them talking about how corrupt voting or this country is..Was Cindy or these like her election judges? I didn’t think so..The thing we suffer from in this country is the lazy, ignorant and they have zero gratitude for the incredible blessing they have as an American citizen. Sick and tired of the hill jacks that ruin this country.
I wonder if Trump boinked Conway which is why her husband has been so toxic and part of the Anti-Lincoln Project?
Correcting one of the reasons I said Lincoln Project is pushing DeSantis is I saw one of their leaders admitting throwing money into a PAC that is pushing DeSantis commercials in IA.
Truthmatters people appreciate this country.
The lazy and ignorant happen to understand what the global elites are doing to this country by cheating elections.
Tell us all you know about the WEF and Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset.
Let’s see who’s lazy and ignorant and uneducated then.
Truthmatters, truth really doesn’t matter to poppets like you.
Funny video: https://summit.news/2022/11/19/sweden-finds-foreign-objects-explosive-residue-on-nord-stream-pipelines/
The problem comes from the fact that there’s a small group of people who think it’s ok for them to deceive, cheat, and kill people who aren’t in their group. One of their holy books is a detailed manual on how to do this.
Since this group is relatively small, potential problems arise when they try to exercise their god’s permission to deceive, cheat, and kill people they think are animals. They have to be careful not to get caught. So mass deceit is necessary.
Of key importance is their mass media deception system. It’s a cross between the systems in 1984 and The Truman Show.
The system in 1984 is a single-voice broadcast. The single voice of Big Brother is broadcast to the general public. The system in The Truman Show is a multi-voice pointcast. Multiple voices in the mass media are pointcast to Truman alone. Our system is a multi-voice broadcast. It’s a Big Brother system with multiple voices broadcasting Big Brother’s script. It gives the impression of multiple free and independent voices.
But the Big Brotherhood didn’t foresee the internet. So they didn’t foresee what a big information leak it would be. So now they’re scrambling to shut it down in a big game of internet whack-a-mole.
But gradually they’re being overwhelmed on multiple fronts. More truth tellers keep popping up. Their Israel project is flailing, with its crimes spilling into public view. Their attack on Russia is going badly, no matter how gamely their media faces lie about it. Statistics about COVID and the mRNA vaccines are getting dragged into public view, and it’s not looking good for the gang. And no one is going for their idea of a nuclear war with China, even if it is the only path to ruling the world from Jerusalem.
We non-Jews are all victims of Jewish supremacy, via banking, education, Christian religion, mass media, GlobalHomo, Endless War, and Holocaust Survivor hysteria.
The primary reasons we are designated “White Supremacists and Domestic Terrorists”, we have the most guns, military training, and still control vast amount of land and resources, they want it all.
Blacks are finally realizing the difference between whites and light skinned Jews, we are not the same race.
It’s obvious Jews bribed BLM with hundreds of millions during the last ‘Festival of Color and Fire’ to refrain from Burn Loot Murder and Rape of light skinned Jews and their businesses and neighborhoods.
You weren’t supposed to notice how Beverly Hills, Martha’s Vineyard, Sun Valley, or Las Vegas etc. were given (((off limits))) status from BLM/Antifa attacks.
Then there’s the Jewish occupation of USA and western governments.
They who control the money control it all.