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Posted on 09/15/2010 8:52:02 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Chicago is dying and its illness will spread to every corner of America unless something is done to address and reverse its problems.
Richard Daley’s administration has done a skillful job of hiding it, but America’s second city, Chicago a town totally ruled by Democrats for eighty years is nearly dead.
The city has chased out numerous wealthy and successful corporations, the kind that feed the life blood of any municipality trying to play in the big leagues. Chicago’s insane liberal politics have driven away: Amoco, Waste Management, Quaker Oats, and even First Chicago among many other top tier corporations.
Starting last year city workers including cops and firemen were suffering unpaid involuntary furloughs of first fifteen days then twenty four days this year. Emblematic of the City’s “lifeboat ethic” is the penny wise and pound foolish sale of its parking meter system. The short term “gain” was a drop in Chicago’s budget shortfall but that revenue has been taken away forever as a source of income.
The head Rat jumps ship because the problems are many
Chicago’s Mayor For Life Richard Daley has announced he would not be running for reelection next February. He didn’t elaborate beyond saying it was time to go, but who would know better how sick his city is than Richard Daley?
The institutionalized problems that now preclude a reversal of Chicago’s fortunes are many and serious….
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Plenty of Gay Bars in Chicago, and in the end, isn’t that ALL that’s really important to most Democrat Media-types anymore?
That, and the fact that there is a vast tribal wasteland on the southside.
Well!...there’s a hell of a shock! Rahm should be the final nail in the coffin then!...
Just look what happened to Detroit after 50 years of “progressive” government.
and if we get 4 more years of O and a dem controlled Congress we will get the same for the rest of the country.
Sounds like Chicago could use a high speed rail line to Madison, WI to get its economy booming again.
Same story here in Pittsburgh - Democrat rule for generations.
Thieving democrats and unions also drove out Brachs, Frango Mints, Sears, and numerous trade shows and vendors. Let’s not forget bulldozing Meigs Field because his precious wife wanted a park. Meigs Field was fine while they lived in Bridgeport but as soon as Miss Maggie moved to the lakefront, she needed a quiet park. And Daley broke the law to accommodate and used the September 11 terrorist attack for cover. Damn you democrats. Damn you to hell!
We need a nationwide Christian revival. We have to get the US back on track.
Father/son tag teams Detroit for 77 consecutive years
Speaking of Detroit and rot, John Dingell has held the 15th Congressional District since 1955 and his father before him held it from 1933 to 1955.
77 years of Dingell
Way to go, Dingells. As you look over Detroit, you should be proud...yeah, I bet...
See my #15
LOL! I was thinking to Frankfort, Kentucky, but since our Illustrious President has informed us that IL doesn’t border KY, well, we’d have to get a state like Arkansas (which our Illustrious President says borders KY) to agree to passage!
In any event, I think you’re 100% correct. If we just add a huge amount of High Speed Rail everywhere, we wouldn’t have any economic problems (because we won’t have an economy)!
The Chicago Democratic Machine was designed in the 1870s by Michael C. McDonald, the Gambler King of Clark Street. He was a conman, thug, thief, pimp, hotel/casino operator, etc.
He set the mold, but the people wanted him. The people are the problem. The Chicago Machine lives on because people are willing to trade their vote for a garbage can they paid for anyway.
They prefer slavery to liberty.
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