A spokeswoman for Gov. Pat Quinn called his reversal on cutting $208 million from state drug and alcohol programs a “fluid process.” Only $100 million will be cut by March 15. Deeper cuts are still likely later this summer.
It seems that Quinn made cuts and then asked questions later. The opposition (agencies and groups that fight addictions and illegal use) pointed out that cutting their service programs would likely drive police, prison and emergency health care costs upward far beyond any savings imagined.
The governor has a history of making premature cost savings decisions when it comes to prisons.
Meanwhile, IBMWatson was the first ever computer player to win the popular “Jeopardy!” quiz show. On February 16 the super computer defeated the show’s most successful champions ever, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, during the three-day nationally televised event. A form of texting was employed to give Watson the answer clues. It then searched through fifteen trillion bytes of information in it’s database at a rate of up to eighty trillion operations per second to whup Ken and Brad.
Considering Illinois’ luck with governors, good ones, honest ones… I’m practicing my write-in technique for the next governor’s race unless a really good candidate steps up.
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