Anyone home in Springfield?

Sales tax revenue to the state of Illinois dropped $10 million last month. The Revenue Department says overall revenue this year could fall $800 million short of budgeted amounts. And the state's backlog of unpaid bills is approaching $5 billion. Yet Gov. Rod Blagojevich doesn't seem concerned. He's missing in inaction.

There's a financial crisis building in Springfield, but you wouldn't know it based on the action – or rather, the inaction – of Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Apparently he's unaware of the uneasiness and uncertainty in the economy because, in state government, it's still business as usual.