As the election
season heats up here in Lincolnland, citizens are getting the old GnOPe
Rauner-round, promises bereft of any plans or details, as if the how such things will be done were unimportant. Now where is it written that somebody who has
made a lot of money in business (He’s rich. Get over it.) knows anything at all about how to run a
government? These local Trumpettes (There
is also Overwhite, the milk magnate.) do have better hair, but apparently no realization
that a state government doesn’t work anything at all like their businesses,
although the state government can and may go bankrupt, and that’s something
they have probably experienced. Please wait until
TPP manages to extract his retirement funds from the state’s coffers before
doing anything rash. (Yes, the fight with the retirement bureaucracy
continues.) One recent Rauner-round promise
was to improve the administrative efficiency of state universities. Now this is
something that TPP knows quite a bit about, and it’s a double whammy, a rich
businessman who wants to be a politician who wants to tell educational
professionals how to run a university.
Sure. It’s bad enough when
professional politicians try to run universities, let alone an amateur
politician. What happens when
administration is made more efficient, i.e., smaller, is that the necessary
functions performed by said administrators get pushed off onto faculty as if
they had nothing else to do. Been there, done that. TPP has no love of
university administrators, but he doesn’t want their job as part of his. Most
of the Rauner-round is standard GnOPe sound bites, almost, but not quite as
tired, but every bit as defunct as trickle-down economics. Voters let the GnOPe
try all of this out in Kansas, their noble experiment, and the data is now in
and everyone can see just how well it all worked. In case you didn’t know, it
failed miserably. (“Far from giving
Kansas a bright new future, Brownback plunged it into chaos.” Details at 11.) No question Lincolnland is a
poorly run state, but at times you have to consider carefully the alternative, and with
the realization that things actually can get worse, TPP will just have to hold his
nose, and vote for the incumbent; if you don’t you just may get the change you
asked for, just not the change you wanted. Or you could move to Kansas and just try it
out for awhile.
RFK Jr. is not a serious person. Don't take him seriously.
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