This is governor's 'business as usual'

It seems we are now getting what we deserve for our lack of attention. When only one third of the voters even care to turn out, we end up with a governor whose main intent is to bully the legislature into his view of a system with no contractual bounds or any form of collective bargaining.

They won't push back too hard, as he well knows, because they have already negotiated their own "golden parachute" pensions that have strangled the state's finances for years to come.

He's not all wrong, but it leaves a sour taste in the mouth to realize that in three years he'll be making the rounds of cookouts and cocktail parties smirking about how he "showed 'em" how a real businessman works while we teeter on the precipice of bankruptcy.

That's just business as usual I suppose, in his eyes.

Tom Schoenke

Grayslake,