RE: Illinois LEO's or anyone wanting to help a brother out.
I'd think real long and hard before wanting to move to IL. This state is a mess.
*Two dozen state parks and historic sites are scheduled for closing, and more than 300 state workers are supposed to be laid off Nov. 30. [only 1% of the land in IL is owned by the state so every park closed makes it that much tougher to find a place to hunt or fish or hike or camp or picnic]
*The governor's state revenue department warned that money coming into state coffers was falling a projected $800 million below budgeted levels, and that shortfall could top $1 billion in a few months.
*Comptroller Dan Hynes asked for help from lawmakers and the governor to pay down a record-smashing $4 billion backlog in unpaid state bills - a total that could reach $5 billion by next spring.
*(printed in May) The state"™s pension debt will exceed $44 billion this summer, increasing at a rate of about $120 per second, according to Gov. Rod Blagojevich"™s administration. The debt already tops $42 billion "” enough to give every one of Illinois"™ 12.8 million residents a check of $3,300 or buy 937,000 Cadillacs at $45,000 a pop.
*The combination of debt in terms of both money and percentage gives Illinois the infamous distinction of having the nation"™s worst pension problem, according to an Associated Press review of records and interviews with experts. And there"™s no solution in sight.
On top of that, you'll probably have to pay through the nose to lease a decent place to hunt. In the long run you'd be better off just leasing from FL or going through an outfitter.
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