Former Congressman Thaddeus G. McCotter on Gotion, the Chinese company building E.V. battery plants in Illinois and Michigan: "These useful elected idiots are spending taxpayer dollars to buy the CCP the razor that barbaric regime will use to cut our throat..... That this is happening at all constitutes an unconscionable affront to the citizen-soldiers who gave their last full measure of devotion for us."
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.