Because what a broke Illinois needs is someone who gets paid to promote paddling. Bloomington Pantagraph:
Quinn is threatening to fire hundreds of state troopers and cut funding to public education, which could result in 20,000 school employees losing their jobs. DNR programs are feeling the pinch too. The agency is considering charging state park users a first-ever entrance fee.
"It's not a good time to be hiring a guy at that level. It's the wrong time," said state Sen. Dale Risinger, R-Peoria.
Illinois can't even pay its current bills, has a $13 billion budget deficit, and while the governor is signing a pension reform bill today it doesn't begin to address the current obligations--unfunded to the tune of $83 billion.
I like to kayak and canoe myself--I don't need a bureaucrat to steer me to the state, nor do enthusiasts around the country. A maddening waste of money. I'm sure there are thousands of patronage jobs like this that are a dead weight on taxpayers. Throw 'em overboard.
P.S. Chicago one of America's most bankrupt cities. Lovely. Business Insider via the Mercatus Center.
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