Free senior transit plan isn't workable

How can bus drivers drive busses, collect fares and then check IDs of people calling themselves seniors?

Also this benefit would be a bonanza for people making fake driver's licenses. It is even possible that on some routes, most people between 40 and 65 would become seniors in just a few months after this benefit gets implemented.

Some smart dishonest person who is in the fake drivers license business might even make his first million by selling these fake licenses on the Internet. I am a senior and do not want this free transportation because of the above.

Here is an alternate suggestion for the governor and members of the legislature to save seniors $50 million this year.

They should donate the money in their re-election funds to areas that directly benefit seniors. It has been reported the governor has over $10 million in his fund.

I also found from Emil Jones Web site that he has over $2 million in his. If the rest of the legislators donated theirs, there should be $50 million to help seniors.

Every sober voter knows that the re-election donations given to the governor and members of the state legislature are not given for getting better government, but are given for special favors that are not in the best interests of the voters.

The best action the governor can take for the voters is to get together with Emil Jones and Michael Madigan to sponsor a bill to eliminate pay-to-play politics.

This could save the state billions over time, which could allow the state to do much more for seniors and all taxpayers than the estimated $50 million bogus free transportation he wants to provide seniors. Nearly every other state in the country other than Illinois already eliminated pay-to-play politics.

Robert Kellstrom

Schaumburg