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Obama's Illinois Imploding
Townhall.com ^ | August 2011 | Jeff Carter

Posted on 08/25/2011 1:39:22 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/25/2011 1:39:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

If someone knows how to contact Ben Stein...please show him this chart. He has had the audacity to claim that higher tax rates have absolutely no affect on growth...


2 posted on 08/25/2011 1:42:37 PM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: Kaslin
I live about 40 miles west of downtown Chicago. When all those LINK cards stop working I'm going to sit in my back yard with a fine cigar and three fingers of bourbon on ice and watch the rosey glow in the eastern sky as the west and south sides of that City go up in flames.

And I'm going to laugh, and laugh, and laugh....

3 posted on 08/25/2011 1:42:37 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Kaslin

Elections have consequences...
But we Hoosiers DO THANK Illinois Democrats for sending us all those fleeing jobs.


4 posted on 08/25/2011 1:44:07 PM PDT by tcrlaf (PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMISTS FOR OBAMA2012!)
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To: Kaslin
I love Chicago. Great town. Love to visit.

But those idiots shouldn't for one minute think the Democrats couldn't do to Chicago what they did to Detroit.

5 posted on 08/25/2011 1:47:33 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Wpin
For an economist Ben Stein makes a reasonably good TV personality.
6 posted on 08/25/2011 1:48:13 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: tcrlaf

http://www.kenoshacvb.com/

I’m sure the folks in Kenosha wouldn’t mind some new businesses. It may not be practical to move all the employees out of the state, but the commute from the Far North suburbs is actually quicker than going downtown.


7 posted on 08/25/2011 1:49:35 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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To: Lurker

May I come over?


8 posted on 08/25/2011 1:50:09 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Lurker

“When all those LINK cards stop working I’m going to sit in my back yard with a fine cigar and three fingers of bourbon on ice and watch the rosey glow in the eastern sky as the west and south sides of that City go up in flames.

And I’m going to laugh, and laugh, and laugh....”

When the filthy rich downtown Liberal Democrats get a REAL lesson in what “Wealth Redistribution” really means.


9 posted on 08/25/2011 1:51:09 PM PDT by tcrlaf (PREFRONTAL LOBOTOMISTS FOR OBAMA2012!)
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To: Wpin

It amazes me how smart Ben Stein is at times, and then at other times, he has no clue to what he is talking about.

I really liked his movie, “Expelled: No Intelligence allowed.”

Wish more people could think consistently, like Evan Sayet! He really gets it!!!! Stein has a ways to go, yet, to develop his logic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c


10 posted on 08/25/2011 1:52:15 PM PDT by savagesusie
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
May I come over?

I'd make really, really sure I had a couple of pre-scouted escape routes out of there my friend. And if you can make it to north central DuPage County you'd be welcome to share my firepit and bourbon and enjoy the show.

11 posted on 08/25/2011 1:53:01 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Kaslin

First there was hope, now there is change.


12 posted on 08/25/2011 1:53:13 PM PDT by 353FMG (Liberalism is Satan's handiwork.)
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To: Lurker

I hear ya. And it will prolly happen just like that, too.


13 posted on 08/25/2011 1:53:35 PM PDT by rdb3 (The mouth is the exhaust pipe of the heart.)
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To: Lurker

I’m 40 miles West of you then, And I should be able to see it from here as well...


14 posted on 08/25/2011 1:54:45 PM PDT by bcsco
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel

He's a friggin' joke. Bloomberg's not much better though....

15 posted on 08/25/2011 1:56:24 PM PDT by b4its2late ("Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8")
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To: Kaslin


16 posted on 08/25/2011 2:00:09 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: 353FMG

Yep, everything going according to THE plan.


17 posted on 08/25/2011 2:02:15 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Lurker
I live about 40 miles west of downtown Chicago.

We have family in Marengo.

When all those LINK cards stop working...

Try paying cash as a tourist. We had the toll takers short change us twice on the way to Marengo. I had driven there that day from New York through downtown Chicago. It was late at night; there was no rush and no excuse. I've never felt so systematically ripped off on any other road system. "Interstate" highways no less.

18 posted on 08/25/2011 2:02:50 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")
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To: Kaslin

If you put these stats, facts, charts on Ill. news sites in every urban center, it would not change a thing. Ill. will vote Dem till the last taxpayer dies. Lemming voters like in Ca. do not like facts. They like multicultural lies and smears of anything that pertains to Pubs, tax cutters, spending cutters and entitlement cutters. Ill. will implode like Ca. and still they will vote Dem.


19 posted on 08/25/2011 2:06:50 PM PDT by phillyfanatic
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To: Lurker

I’m right by the Indiana line, and relative civilization. Knowing my neighbors, a lot of them won’t go down without a fight. We’re moving out of the city next summer, so if things can hold out until then......


20 posted on 08/25/2011 2:08:10 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." -- G.K. Chesterton)
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