Bloomberg's interview with Governor Pat Quinn leaves Illinoisans with little hope he'll embrace the Republicans' $6.7 billion in spending cuts offered for this year's budget. Instead, if Bloomberg has it right, Quinn remains proned to actually spending more, and ridicules those governors focused on cutting spending:
For governors cutting education and health care and going after public-sector employees to balance budgets, here’s a message from Illinois Governor Pat Quinn: You’re wrong. Not mistaken, not misinformed.
“Just plain wrong,” said Quinn, 62, during a March 22 interview in his Chicago office. “I don’t buy into all these radical cuts in government as a way to make life better for ordinary, everyday people.”
Don’t cut, says Quinn. Build instead, he says, referring to the $5.6 billion spent in the past two fiscal years for 3,240 miles of road repair and upgrading 472 bridges.
