-By Warner Todd Huston
Here we have Cook County Board President Todd Stroger spending as much cash on his family, offices and friends as he can before he gets canned from his high position in government, here we have the County budget coming in at $3 billion, the Board constantly squabbling over massive tax hikes — hikes they thankfully didn’t implement this budget cycle — and so many things going on that are supremely important yet the County Board is wasting time trying to pass anti-Arizona rules and setting up new offices to implement affirmative action measures.
In talks about new red-light cameras that are little else but cash machines that sap money from the citizens straight to government pockets while providing little by way of safety, it occurred to a pair of pro-law breakers on the County Board that they should exclude the Arizona-based company that was in the running for the county’s red-light camera business.
In a show of support for law breaking illegal immigrants, Commissioners Reyes and Moreno presented a resolution to complain about Arizona’s good sense immigration law and to stop the county from doing business with any Arizona company.
Fortunately, more sensible heads prevailed and the time wasting resolution was shuffled back into a committee to be ignored later.
In yet another attempt to go all PC all the time, the county board also moved to establish an affirmative action office to jury-rig rules to fit silly hiring quotes based on sexual orientation, gender and racial concerns.
Seriously? In a day and age when more and more people all the time are seeing affirmative action as a backwards thing of the past, our expert goofs in county government are looking to implement NEW affirmative action quotas!
The new “Cook County Affirmative Action Program” says that it will implement a “goal of hiring and maintaining an overall County workforce of 50% minority, 25% woman and 5% disabled in every County bureau.”
What about transgendered Filipino hatcheck girls, space aliens, and circus animals? Can’t they get jobs, too? Where’s the quotas for them? Why is the whole world so unfair to transgendered Filipino hatcheck girls? And what about the horses?
Naturally, this new office will be spending budget money we don’t have and will be required to create “diversity related training programs,” investigate “complaints of discriminatory employment practices” and implement “corrective action,” all while monitoring the “results of all training.”
With the budget as hard pressed as it is we are wasting money on this nonsense just so the board can puff its chest and tell its lefty pals that it is doing good work for the little people. Just what we need, eh?
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston
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