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.
IDES isn’t an outlier among Illinois agencies insofar as an inability to exercise responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars is concerned.
Unemployment insurance mismanagement is just the headline of the moment. IDES has lots of company.
The Illinois Department of Human Services & Medicaid (PC camouflaged by calling it “insurance”), Department of Revenue, Department of Transportation, Department of Natural Resources – all “managed” by political appointees who take their orders from an administration beholden to government employee union’s political contributions, and tax-dollar-dependent cabals like Big Doc, Big Hospital, Big Pharm, Day-Care disguised as Education, and Big Lawyer.