Posted on 09/15/2018 3:51:04 PM PDT by Hojczyk
At the same time, Emanuel acquiesced in Obama administration oversight of the city’s police department. And police officers’ retreat from proactive policing has led to enormous increases in shootings and homicides.
I happened to be in Chicago in the early weeks of December 2008 and saw the celebratory air of a city festooned with posters hailing the new president — the first president Chicago ever produced. But after leaving office in January 2017, Obama has not moved back to Chicago and recently only visited briefly. Hope and change is not in the air.
Chicago is one of the great creations of mankind: a frontier post in 1833 that was one of the world’s great cities just 60 years later, showing off in the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 its new lakefront parks, its new electric light systems, its sanitary canal channeling wastewater away from Lake Michigan, its pioneering skyscrapers and enormous stockyards and factories.
Now the economic foundations of the metropolis are being drained and undermined to provide the generous pensions of long-retired public employees, many of them now in income-tax-free Florida, while public schools are closed, services reduced, police patrols pulled back.
That looks like a future of decline for Chicago, and maybe for America, too. Democrats have shown zero interest in reducing the entitlements of retirees, not since President Bill Clinton broke off negotiations with House Speaker Newt Gingrich amid the impeachment crisis of 1998. Ditto Donald Trump, and no Republican seems to be raising the issue, as President George W. Bush did in 2005.
It’s not a good sign — like a cold wind coming off Lake Michigan — that even as shrewd and well-connected a politician as Rahm Emanuel doesn’t see a viable way forward.
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Failure? Its a Democrat career resume enhancer.
Looks that way...what blue state is headed in the right direction??
..Wisconsin.if it is considered blue
Chicongo is exactly what the Kenyanesian Usurper organized it to be.
I suspect Rahm, who plunged a knife into a table to illustrate what he’d do to people who crossed him, is a sociopath. He doesn’t care what happens to Chicago. He only cared about the power and whatever he took home for himself. The reason he isn’t running is the polls tell him he has a maximum of 31% of the voters who will back him. He’s a pragmatist and losing that badly would be bad for whatever future he has planned. Most likely he’ll become a college president, like so many other Democrats who get their payoff. He’ll get book contracts and cable income, like Obama. The Democrats take care of their own...the elites, that is.
Now it's gunpowder and lead.
We need term limits in politics - You need to retire after you steal your first million and let another Democrat have a chance. /s
The One is too big for dirty little Chicago now. He'll never go back.
These public-sector union pensions are going to be the financial ruin of Illinois and California and several other blue states.
Colorado, but Colorado has the advantage of having tax amendments put into its constitution back when it was majority republican which limit what legislatures can spend, and democrats still can't get rid of. Occasionally we even get tax refunds, what democrat state ever does that? We also have a republican senate, so this "problem" can't get fixed for now.
“Obama has not moved back to Chicago and recently only visited briefly.”
How many millions did the taxpayers spend on security for Obama’s Chicago home for 8 years and security enhancements to the property? How many nights did Obama spend in the house during his 8 years as president or even since he left office?
The majority of the shooters may have key characteristics in common.
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