Rauner playing Zero Sum Game with 13 million Illinoisans

You don't become a billionaire in venture capitalism by considering the interests of all and providing for the Commons. You (and your partners) win every time. The other side, the workers, the Commons, lose every time. Once you are fabulously wealthy, you assuage your guilt giving large amounts (but a pittance of your fortune) to charity. That is a fair description of Bruce Rauner's modus operandi. Sadly, he decided to ...continue it into his governorship. Whether stumping for the expiration of the desperately needed temporary tax increase extension to give his base an unnecessary tax cut, rolling back Illinois' minimum wage to the Federal level, busting unions, along with their livable wages and working conditions, and ending prevailing wage standards, Rauner displays zero interest in economic fairness and responsible governance. That is Rauner's Zero Sum Game: everything for the elite; nothing for the masses.

But Illinois isn't a tantalizing company that Rauner can make a big score on or dump if it's a payday dog. It's 13 million folks who depend on a leader who considers a semblance of their needs versus the fat cats for whom Rauner truly celebrates and provides. They know for certain that Rauner is not now and likely never will be in their corner. But what Rauner will never replicate in Illinois is the disaster that a Walker has created in Wisconsin, Brownback implemented in Kansas, or Jindal foisted upon Louisiana. They had a pliant legislature to do their dirty work. Illinois has a legislature beholden to the people.

At age 58, Bruce Rauner will finally learn that the billionaire's Zero Sum Game in the business world doesn't play in the public arena.