Illinois’ loves recovering and reinvesting

I took a much deserved vacation from my days toiling away at the computer this past week, and I figured I would come back with an update covering some of the news I missed out on.

I’ll start though by stating that Illinois is the most ridiculous state in the country.  I never thought it would happen but they passed Iowa in that dubious category.  (I’m only counting states that I have been to, so don’t feel bad Florida and Texas – I’m quite sure your worse)

When the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was initiated to boost the economy I can’t fathom any state jumped into action faster than Illinois.  Illinois was in such a hurry to start recovering and reinvesting that they just started tearing up every section of I-74 without any concern for how inconvenient it is for me personally.

In fact, Illinois loves recovering and reinvesting so much that they’re tearing up road that they just tore up and fixed last summer.  They actually completely removed the road in some areas.  It’s quite the spectacle to behold, especially because I rarely see them doing much work.   Although they may be doing it under the cover of darkness so that nobody notices that 60% of the roads they are repairing were in good condition before.  (I think they might just be painting some sections of the road black in some sections)

Now, certainly a lot of I-74 needed some work, I’m not disputing that.  However, it certainly didn’t need as much work as they are putting into it.

Also, Illinois has purchased enough orange cones to keep the orange cone business going strong for decades.  You see, when Illinois starts recovering and reinvesting they just plant those orange colored cones everywhere.  Even in the areas that they aren’t currently working on they just throw down some orange cones on the side of the road because sooner or later they’re going to be doing something in that area.  The downside is that it makes it incredibly difficult to know when you’re in a work zone since at some points they tell you that you’ve exited a work zone and other times they don’t.