Your Tax Dollars At Work

According to The Dispatch, Moline has received $50,950 from the state in order to “spruce up city land along railroad tracks . . . The money will be used to buy and plant native grasses, trees and berming on city right-of-way along the tracks. . . ‘

As always, the question is who benefits?

Is this just some make-work project for city workers?  If so, they should be laid off.  Is this some sort of pay-for-play with a landscaping company?  Who, besides hobos, will even notice this waste of taxpayer $$$$?

This is particularly galling considering the fact that our wonderful State O’ Illinois is behind on its bill-paying by almost $9 BILLION, and climbing.  This includes back payments for Medicaid providers, hospitals, nursing homes and pharmacies.

But so what if we can’t pay for social services? In Illinois we’ll always have money to “spruce up” railroad tracks.

Author: qcexaminer

None of your damned business.

11 thoughts on “Your Tax Dollars At Work”

  1. Duhhh? Do you think it may have something to do with the pending $72 million university to be constructed along the rail tracks?

  2. If that’s the REAL reason they’re doing it, the Illinois government is even more crackheaded than I imagined.

    I can tell by your comments that you are a caring, compassionate liberal, so I ask you; is it more important to you to “spruce up” the grounds around the proposed WIU campus, which will be years, if not decades in the making, than to feed poor little starving children in Illinois?

    I think I know the answer to that! 🙂

  3. If you edcuate poor little children you can teach them to fend for themselves. As my grandma use to say< Cleanlyness is next to Godliness!

  4. QCE, the place has to look nice for the construction workers. How else will they have incentives to work? Who is John Galt?

    I digress..

  5. They are just preparing for an increase in unemployed workers following the bankruptcies that will follow Obamacare, another Obama porkulous and his cap and trade bludgeoning of industry and those that work for those industries. Following cap and trade – expect more companies like John Deere to start making arrangements to move more factories overseas to China.

    🙄 ………. 🙄
    Phil Hare

  7. Nice non sequitur NewNews.

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    j, John Galt, indeed.

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    Yeah S, it seems there was a record number bankruptcy filings last year and the most job losses since 1940.

    Hope! Change! FUBAR!

  8. We need a change of scenery around Moline. I need to look outside with plenty of grass growing around me. Took bad this isn’t grass one can smoke, unless mary-jane is native.

  9. We need to change the term “public servant”.

    There may be some that still have the heart of service, but many are more “public welfare workers”, who retain a job at moderate to minimal performance, but want demand good pay and ALL the benefits.

    Then there is the “public milkman”, who figures his job is a means to milk the unlimited government teat for as much as possible. This might include the contractors (especially union) that charge double, but always seem to get the job, often a job that wasn’t even needed. High on this list are friends and family of politicians.

    I’ll have to develop that model further, but I remember a client I had in another place, who was an alderman. He told me he debated with another alderman over whether the role of public works was to get the needed jobs done, or to provide work, especially for those that might otherwise not have work.

    More of the rank and file workers in smaller towns like Quincy are more competent, but there is still room for plenty of graft and favoritism among those that push the money around.

    BigGov may finally be succeeding at overburdening capitalism, and we better change course quickly.

    http://www.dinocrat.com/archives/2010/01/07/sign-of-the-times-3/

  11. Jeez! Talk about yer weapons of mass destruction—a boozed up snowplow driver let loose on slick city streets!

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