Take 1 with Bill Cameron (10-22-2023) - Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks.com

This week Bill talks with Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and Founder of OpenTheBooks.com. It details spending by governments at all levels and the waste that goes with it. Andrzejewski, who ran for Illinois Governor as a Republican in 2010, talks about all of the unnecessary furniture the government buys. Also, is there any accountability when it comes to wasteful government spending? School superintendents in Illinois are still getting absorbent pensions and big salaries. Andrzejewski details how much money Amtrak loses yearly. He also explains how much waste were in the PPP Covid Loans. Is it feasible for the United States to keep funding Ukraine and Israel? The round-table with Greg Hinz, Heather Cherone, Ray Long and Dave Stewart talked about some turmoil in Chicago and in the United States and in the Middle East. The House of Representatives can't pick a new Speaker of the House. One Chicago alderperson was accosted at a protest against putting a tent camp in the Brighton Park neighborhood. Former longtime Alderman Ed Burke will be going on trial and one former president's name will not be mentioned in the trial. Will Governor Pritzker actually sign a bill, if it comes to his desk, that would give a tax credit to families to send their children to private school? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.