Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
My township exists only to give pensions to the trustees. Sure there are a few roads, a food bank and a quarterly newsletter. But that’s about it.
Township in my neck of the woods donates $5,000 every year to the senior citizen’s center assuring votes for the status quo. Nothing will change in Illinois ever.
Illinois is unfixable – it’s set up to be sub optimized to maximize patronage.
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” ― Milton Friedman
Perfect example. Wheatland Township aka the Will County border area between Naperville and Plainfield. They keep buying shiny new trucks, have a hidden away “Township Office” tucked in behind a Naperville Fire Station and in the 12 years we have lived here, never done a single thing of value that I or my neighbors can see, and we are literally within a quarter mile of this bunker of waste. They have a Park Commission with Trustees, the park is in Plainfield. Their pretty website have pictures of Neuqua Valley HS, but that’s in Naperville. There is a Board of Trustees,… Read more »
Spot on same thing by me Lockport township
Yea, township employees, road commissioners and the like all use township equipment on their farms and businesses down in Clark county.