“Rodding” Peter to Pay Paul

P-D :

The anti-Midas touch of Gov. Rod Blagojevich is already rubbing off on his mostly top secret, two-year plan to combat unemployment problems in southern Illinois.

The governor announced recently that he wants to move 148 state transportation office workers to an undisclosed community in the southern part of the state.

Last week, however, the Illinois Department of Transportation confirmed that the number of people who may be moving may be reduced to 110.

So Gov. Rod Blubberhead’s solution is to move jobs from upstate to somewhere downstate. S o increase unemployment upstate to decrease it downstate.  The good/bad news is that not quite as many jobs will be moved.