Obamaville City Limits

The American Thinker ^ | July 11, 2009 | Rosslyn Smith

[Scanian]

As I read founder of Creators Syndicates Rick Newcombe's explanation of why he is moving his business out of the increasingly corrupt confines of Los Angeles and the anti growth policies of California in general, I had to wonder. Business aren't the only one who relocate to get away from high taxes and arbitrary, out of control bureaucrats.

Americans have been voting with their feet for decades now. During the last half of the 20th century, all across America, married people with children voted with their feet rather than take on the dirty job of trying to reform the nation's corrupt urban political systems and the seemingly impossible task of fixing urban school systems.

It was do that, or shell out a small fortune in local taxes and then pay private school tuition for your children's education on top of it.

Mayor Daley, a consummate political survivor, now rules Chicago from a much different power base than the largely white blue collar machine he inherited from his father. First he helped minority factions get their own share of the patronage spoils. Then he co-opted the white progressives faction that so actively opposed his father, and courted professional singles and empty nesters who wanted a clean, orderly and crime free Lakefront full of sidewalk cafes, median planters and wrought iron fences.

In the process, he encouraged real estate development that priced the working class families that were the backbone of his father's coalition out of many parts of the city. I suspect a great many of the children of the people who actively supported him in the 1983 election now live in the burgeoning exurb of Oswego. One sign of this change was when Daley himself in the mid 90s moved his official residence from a Bridgeport bungalow to a Lakefront

[chadwimc]

obama is doing to America what they have done to Detroit, Cleveland, Africa...

[Vaduz]

True lawlessness is out of hand.

[ballplayer]

So true but the Barbarian Hordes are growing in power and I am afraid it is only a matter of time for the Balkanization to lead to the riots in the streets like we have watched on television over the years and always thought it could not happen here. I believe we are at that point now and the coming elections will demonsrtae that and I mean because of all the Money ACORN has and the 250,000 man army Obama is creating through America Cares that Clinton Abomination.
By electing this America Hater Americans have Dug their own Graves.

[ballplayer]

So true but the Barbarian Hordes are growing in power and I am afraid it is only a matter of time for the Balkanization to lead to the riots in the streets like we have watched on television over the years and always thought it could not happen here. I believe we are at that point now and the coming elections will demonsrtae that and I mean because of all the Money ACORN has and the 250,000 man army Obama is creating through America Cares that Clinton Abomination.
By electing this America Hater Americans have Dug their own Graves.

[RU88]

“No Henderson, Nevada, Oswego, Illinois or Derry, New Hampshire lies beckoning just across the city limits from Obamaville.”

And therein lies the Obmanation. Americans have migrated out of liberal, low growth, high tax, overly regulated areas for decades and for good reason. What “progressives” have done for America's cities is now going to tried out on the rest of the country. My feeling on all of this is that you can run but you can't hide. The day is fast approaching when are backs are going to be square against the wall and you are going to have two options: submit or fight. That fight needs to be taken immediately to halls of Congress to stop crap and tax and socialized medicine. Let's face reality here. Things are not getting better in spite of what the lap dogs in the state run media say. I suppose they'll change their tune when they're in the unemployment line as well. Americans elected a socialist and it will be up to the American electorate to vote him and his band of thieves in Congress out. Say nope to the dope in November.