In the "Chicago Tribune" this morning 4/27, Dennis Byrne wrote an article on how to solve the severe, billions of dollars budget deficit of the State of Illinois. The "answer"? Don't fund the State of Illinois Deaf and Hard of Hearing Commission. Mr. Byrne writes that if the State would stop funding agencies like the Commission, then our budget problems would go away. Interesting that he does not write about...
....getting rid of the hundreds (thousands?) of State owned cars that State employees drive;
....creating a REAL Personnel Evaluation program for State employees that would measure
job performance against a set of achievable goals for those jobs;
....seriously investigating State contracts to see if the work demanded in the contract was ever done; the product bought was ever delivered or actually did what itw as supposed to do; the program paid for was ever started, worked on, or completed.
No, none of these will save the State of Illinois a penny! However, getting rid of that Commission that serves deaf and hard of hearing people in Illinois...yes, that is the "answer"! That is ALWAYS the first "answer" from the people in power as to why we have problems. It's those people with disabilities, those people who are deaf. Get rid of their Commission. Get rid of them!