Beatitudes

I hope everyone who voted for Bruce Rauner is happy he is doing what you elected him to do. In the short time he has been governor of Illinois, he has been merciless in his attack against the most vulnerable in our state: impoverished children, our elderly and infirm seniors, the debilitatingly sick, the mentally ill and disabled, the hard-working families hanging by their nails to lower middle-class. Thousands have been thrown into poverty, and hundreds into the streets.

Now, in his latest move, without even the ruse of attributing it to budget cuts, he has denied a source of relief for our desperate veterans. These sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, husband and wives, who have sacrificed and served and suffered for our country, are still bleeding. Yet Rauner's own malicious, narrow-minded, political agenda forbids them, under the threat of prison, the means to cauterize their wounds.

His policies have driven business out of the state, yet he is determined to squash a budding industry (no pun intended), and undermine a program voted into law by our state Congress.

The bill was called the Compassionate Care Act for a reason. I guess compassion is not a word in Rauner's vocabulary.

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