Social-service agencies beg Illinois to pay its bills

The Chicago Tribune reports:

The paper trail of Illinois' budget crisis reaches hundreds of letters high, each pleading missive an example of a state too broke to pay its bills.

The disabled soon won't have a place to live. The drug-addicted could be turned away for treatment. Prison inmates will run out of toilet paper.

The threats are found in so-called "hardship letters" that flood the Illinois comptroller's office, sent in mostly by service providers begging the state to send whatever money it can spare to ease the crunch.

Too bad Obama didn't think about reforming Illinois before he ran for President.