Texas has been getting a lot of bad press lately. I commented here last Thursday. But Texas isn’t the only state that is messed up. Here is a letter to the editor that was published in the Chicago Tribune yesterday:
“Comparing Texas, Illinois
The more I read of the problems in Texas, the more it sounds like Illinois. Texas could have built a utility system that would have handled the recent cold weather. We have windmills in Illinois that work in winter, and Manitoba in Canada has water systems that work.
The people and government in Texas, however, decided not to winterize their systems that much. They decided to spend the money on something else.
Which is what we do in Illinois. We make pension promises and then don’t fund them. The state runs up bills and leaves them unpaid. Because our government, and the people who elect them, would rather spend the money on something else.”
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