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By Adriana Colindres of Gatehouse News Service, SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Rod Blajojevich’s administration is taking too much money from the state’s road fund and diverting it for other purposes, says Sen. Dale Risinger, a Peoria Republican and retired Illinois Department of Transportation district Engineer:

As a result, nearly $2 billion less is available to fix Illinois roads, which endured a rough winter and need repair.

Gee, and I was hoping to get away from Wisconsin politics.

While doing some chores yesterday afternoon at my Grandmother’s place I heard my Uncle Dean, a retired union railroad engineer, talking to my Dad about Barack Obama, “Who does he think he is, saying he will take the oil companies’ profits?” That was something I had heard in the office earlier in the week.

He’s right of course, but it was odd to hear the same thing out of the blue from a union guy that I had heard from a non political person in my office earlier in the week.

By the way as I write this on my third day in the heart of Obama country, I have yet to see any kind of Obama sign. (Other candidates: Hillary Clinton 0, John McCain 0, Ron Paul 4)

Gee, and I was hoping to get away from Presidential politics.

They have a beautiful outdoor mall in Peoria; we went there for dinner last night at Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse. (They have one in Madison too, I highly recommend it). As we waited for our table it occurred to me how happy people were, enjoying their meals, having conversation and drinking expensive wine. They didn’t seem to be worried about our economic plight in the least. I guess they got stimulated too. My Dad commented that the wait times would likely be shorter due to the recession.

As I reflected back on the day, buying flowers for my Grandmother’s garden in a crowded nursery, seeing all the people around town who had participated in the Race for the Cure for breast cancer research and seeing shoppers at the mall I got to thinking that things were not nearly as bad as papers keep telling me they are.

Before the naysayers come along and tell me how out of touch I am, I clearly understand that some people are struggling.

Four times this week I have heard people whining about the recession, just to have them look at me like I was crazy for telling them we were not in one. Once for the record folks, a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. Sound the alarm after we have had one negative quarter please.

I can see why people think that way; the media keeps telling us it’s the end of the world. Expect their cries of doom to only get louder the closer we get to November and they need to chin up the agent for change over his growing personal scandals.

As for me, as far as the recession goes, I choose not to participate.

Well, at least I was able to get away from the recession this weekend.

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