Talk of the county

People who think free enterprise built this country don't know their history. The interstate highway system of the 1950s was a federal program under Eisenhower, a Republican. The first transcontinental railroad was begun (while the Civil War raged) by Lincoln, also a Republican.

Here's an interesting statistic: If Bill Clinton's balanced budget had been continued for the last 10 years, the federal deficit would be zero right now.

Terry Link is talking about how much time he's spending downstate campaigning for lieutenant governor. How can he be looking out for the Senate district that elected him while he does this? Unemployment in Waukegan and North Chicago is among the highest in the state. He should be trying to create jobs here, not hawking votes in St. Louis and Peoria.

Gurnee District 56 is trying to justify another new building -- the plans for which they've already had for years, by the way -- with the same old song-and-dance about Gurnee Grade. At a time of falling home values, rising unemployment and an already-crushing tax burden, this is not the time to come to the taxpayers for more just because someone would like yet another new school building. Are we going to fall for this again?

Oct. 29 marked the 80th anniversary of the Great Depression! Black Thursday in 1929 the U.S. banking system collapsed when the stock market fell to record lows. There were runs on banks, high unemployment, house values declined, consumers stop buying and the roaring '20s came to an end. It's all about supply and demand. Today, we have high unemployment, declining home values, troubled banks, consumers with no money, but a more serious problem is our nation is deeply in debt. Sound familiar?

Add Warren Township Supervisor Suzanne Simpson to the growing list of Gurnee politicians who need to be replaced. Gurnee residents will be taxed for the new $4 million sports complex, even though we have a park district. Tax-and-spend Sue needs to go, along with the Gurnee Village Board members who can't count when it comes to the water fund.

I have no problem helping any American citizen in need of health care. I resent that I will be required to pay for the health care of illegal immigrants that will have an exemption. If this administration does nothing to close and protect our borders, free health care for illegals is just going to open the floodgate for the illegals to call all their relatives and say come on in and you don't even have to learn English.

Regarding the person who questioned why family members and friends do not have to be licensed to provide day-care services: We know those people and know if they are qualified or not to care for our children. With strangers, we need to know that someone else has evaluated them. What's next? Licensing stay-at-home parents?

There is a recession in every state, however there is one area where there is no recession. There, they spend money like a mad spouse with a limitless credit card. That area is Washington, D.C. They expect everyone to cut back, as long as it doesn't apply to them. I will support the public option as soon as it is written into the bill that every senator and representative and their families will be enrolled in that same program.

Every president, except the first one, George Washington, inherits problems from the previous one. It is common sense, even if one is always hiding under a rock! The only difference is that Obama is needlessly blaming the previous president for everything -- including his failed programs.

I think the H1N1 vaccinations are going just fine and I am a nurse giving them. It isn't anybody's fault in the Obama administration that they have been delayed due to manufacturing issues. Stop trying to rewrite history, right wing nuts!

Campaign promises

Campaign promises, like pie crusts, were made to be broken. Once elected, most candidates go the way that will get them elected again.