Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Illinois Broke: Squad Cars Repossessed By Bank From Alexander County Sheriff , Behind on Payments

Carol Marin of the Chicago Sun-Times reports:
in Illinois, we've deferred our problems until it's almost too late. Like in Downstate Alexander County, for instance, where all the squad cars were recently repossessed, and 75 percent of the sheriff's department was laid off. Imagine.
Here's more on the story from last September:
The bank recently repossessed five of the county's seven squad cars because the department was behind on payments.
Government , the God that failed.