Obama’s Chicago?
Shovel ready work in Obama’s Chicago = Bodies needing buried.
The Democrats have looted the city treasury and the state treasury. They need money from other states to pay for their limousines and Bahamas vacations. They couldn’t possibly reduce their own spending.
Anyone? Bueller?
Democrats have run Chicago for decades. How will they blame this on Republicans???
OK - let’s check the boxes:
1. City controlled by far left democrats for the last 60 years.
2. Union public union goons support/money required for anyone to win ANY political office in the city. The state and city are closed shop.
3. Voted for obama 74%
4. Has instituted every far left program ever imagined.
5. Extremely high taxes (property, income and sales).
6. And the city is in a state with almost all the same problems for the same reasons.
The day is almost here when the progressives finally run out of other people’s money.
Cue up - We are all victims. No one could see this coming. A promise is a promise. We need a BAILOUT - it is only fair.
On the plus side - The perfect city for obama to build his library with foreign donations.
And this doofus Shaw never mentions the T-rex in the room-—bond debt and the usury that goes with it. Also, the bungling incompetence of the officialdom spending those billions and billions.
About 2013 the Chicago Tribune did an excellent series of actual real investigative reporting-— yeah, I was shocked-— concerning the wretched incompetence of the Chicago spending machine in the last twenty years
In the Big Ed arena they dropped hundreds of millions on plant improvements to buildings that were then closed. Another fascinating little tidbit was that they went at least ten years without putting a penny into the teacher retirement plan which had been nearly fully funded but it ain’t now.
Another little factoid-——a law I think the RINO statehouse passed twenty years ago that lets the Mayor of Chicago and cronies push bonds without putting them up for election to the voters. Mayor Daley smiled.
Anyhow, this series contained lots of info and is worth a read for those interested in a slow motion urban finance train wreck. I feel for the population segment of Illinois who don’t deserve to be tax-raped to support their worthless inferiors like Rahm and his ilk.
Another formerly great American city ruined by rat infestation.
I have a bottle of 18 year old Glenfiddich I’m saving for the day of the crash here. I’m going to pour myself three fingers of it, light my last Honduran hand roll, watch the rosy glow as Chicago goes up in flames, and I’m going to laugh and laugh and laugh.
Then the NPP goes to Condition Red.
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We’re seeing the dawn of the inedible $100 Chicago deep dish pizza - $25 for the pizza plus $75 in city taxes.
Double burp.