Welcome to "Suddenly"

In Ernest Hemingway 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises," the character Mike Campbell was asked about his money troubles and responded with....:

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

Is Illinois finally approaching "suddenly"?

• Gov. JB Pritzker is directing state agencies to identify 4% spending cuts in next year’s budget, citing what he called "disastrous economic policies" by President Donald Trump.

  Pritzker signed an executive order requiring agencies to outline reductions within 30 days. 

  The cuts could include nonessential purchases, operational expenses and nonessential travel.

  "There are hundreds of millions of dollars that are going to have to be made up for as a result of the cuts the federal government is making, including in healthcare and nutritional assistance but also across the economy with the tariffs that are impacting businesses in Illinois," Pritzker said.

  The governor said the 4% figure is only a starting point and warned that the state may face more severe budget challenges in the coming year.

"disastrous economic policies" that have led to all time stock market highs?

Health care and nutritional assistance that are rife with corruption and grift?

Tariffs that most experts agree aren't having nearly the downside that the panic peddlers on the left were hoping for, and are actually properly re-balancing world trade?

While Porky jacks up taxes by another few billion, maintaining gas taxes at levels where truckers won't even fill up in Illinois, businesses flee to surrounding lower tax states and U-Haul rates Illinois as one of the top three states homeowners are fleeing?