[Lekooks] Inspiration

[Michael McNett]

Thanks, Phil,
As governor, he's had an extremely tough situation taking on IL's budget.  The legislators there have been kicking the financial can down the road since the 1970's; offering state employees and teachers higher pensions as compensation for poor salaries, yet not funding the pension accounts.  It's been a travesty, and he's had to take it on.
I really admire his ability to wade into an utter quagmire and absorb the political shots needed to turn it around.
Given the state our federal government will be in when rational leadership returns, we could do far worse than him as president.
Mike
Nehru to Gandhi, on his deathbed: "Mahatma, in your lifetime, you have turned the world utterly upside down. How must that feel??" 

Gandhi: "Yes, I turned the world upside down. I stood on my head."
 

    On Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 11:25:11 AM CDT, philip smith via Lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org> wrote:  
 
 Heather Cox Richardson (awesome historian...) post today repeated Illinois Governor Pritzker's speech on our current state of affairs. I found it inspirational- hope it resonates onward..............The link:https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-28-2025?r=dprhh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=emailPhil

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