Who is really trying to buy the election?
Letter to the editor
Rauner has been criticized a lot, because he spent a lot of his own money to pay for campaign ads. He has been accused of trying to buy the election. Yet Democrat incumbents, like Quinn, try to buy the election as well. They just use your money. They don’t have to ask for it, and they don’t have to report it as a campaign contribution.
Instead of an ad, they start a government program. It doesn’t matter that they are $7 billion behind in unpaid bills. It doesn’t matter that they are $100 billion in debt. All that matters is that they are seen as the compassionate do-gooders for a society that is increasingly unable to take care of itself. It doesn’t matter either that all this government dependency is a direct result of their own policies going back for decades.
As they spend more of your money that they don’t already have, they will keep finding ways to get more of that money, so that you have less and less of your own money and more and more people find the need for government assistance. The new American dream: a government assisted life from the cradle to the grave.