Posted on 03/02/2019 5:18:41 AM PST by C19fan
If their success on Tuesday carries over to the April runoff election, as many as five members of the Democratic Socialists of America could be on the Chicago City Council — the most in more than a century. Two won aldermanic seats outright. Three others made the runoffs.
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Socialism will not work...thump...socialism will not work...thump...socialism will not work...thump...socialism will not work..
In the decimal numbering system and mathematics, 1 + 1 = 3 is illogical.
In the world of economics and humankind, socialism is illogical.
And they all have Spanish sur names, congratulations Chicago, you have imported the sickness that will kill you.
And they all have Spanish sur names, congratulations Chicago, you have imported the sickness that will kill you.
How can anyone tell the difference from the previous board members?
I’ve lived in Chicago, worked there and spent a lot of time there. The Magnificent Mile, Gold Coast and much of the North Side is a great place to live and work. But I am very glad that I own no property there; the rich liberals in the high rise condos are going to find out that as the money runs out from other sources to fund ridiculous city pensions and the new socialist schemes and schemers will turn to them for money.
Your point that there are good people in Chicago is obviously invalid
These sh!tholes (like my state of NJ) have successfully chased out enough “makers” so outright communists can win elections; people who contribute nothing vote for them enthusiastically.
You don’t need Milton Friedman to tell you why serious entrepreneurs, capitalists, corporations and rational, decent people are avoiding big Democrat controlled cities or are moving out. Cities are populated by the doctrinaire, the decadent, the perennially impoverished and uneducated. It is a solid Democrat block and to be avoided by most.
All the posters on FR seem all opposed to this.
Are the same FReepers, buying stuff made in China?
Yes? (Yes)
What is the difference?
Completely series. Why not, the same objections?
The problem in New Jersey is the cities; like Chicago, they are dominated by leftist recipients of money from the rest of the state. Unlike Chicago, there is no rich core of business in most of the city to drain money from so they elect legislators and an awful state supreme court that takes money from the suburbs and the rural areas to fund their schemes. As more people move out of the State, the burden becomes higher on the remaining people who work.
A slight modification to fit my perspective.
In the past it was the cities in NJ; now the suburbs are filling with imported breeding cattle to keep the schools open, and the rural areas are filling with imported braceros.
Most big companies fled our cities a long time ago; now they are fleeing suburban office parks. Eventually it will be impossible to open offices here because there won’t be any skilled workers left.
Because Chicago it’s enough of a shithole.
COULD THIS BE WHY CHICAGOANS ARE SEEING RATS ?
The city of Chicago is composed of 50 wards which average out to around 72 precincts of about 350 or more voters in each precinct. Many are former villages incorporated into the city as the city grew. . A Chicago Alderman is in effect a mini mayor. They have input into who gets city services and now it’s how those services are being administered seem to be running into who’s ward is it ?.
What’s not being looked at is how Chicago wards have been redistricted. Chicago has had neighborhoods divided to create “Hispanic”residential sections going to Hispanic aldermanic and congressional (Gutierez) candidates and blacks going to black candidates.Which apparently is the result of the turnover in the Freddie and Fanny mortgage collapse. As stable integrated areas changed into being unstable because of constant dwelling turnover.had the effect of breaking up a contiguous geographic continuity and community identity. Because the wards affected which are really like small towns have had sections broken up into areas where if a problem arises in a given section of street which has one way traffic only. It may be two way a block down because it’s in a different ward. The same applies to all other city services including zoning and sanitation where garbage collection routes are organized by ward boundaries,
50 year Alderman Burke who is under federal charges for corruption ward is an example. Burke’s ward ,14th, needed remapping . The 14th was originally known as “Back of The Yards” Once the home of the famous Chicago Stock Yards where most food processors along with employee demographics have since relocated. It was a compact area almost 15 plus city blocks square area composed mostly of single and 2 story frame and brick family dwellings mixed with scattered brick apartment units. Because of the construction, insurance rates varied and became known as the condemned as “redlining”. When the democrats also warily supported by the Bush 2 administration came up with the no 20% down mortgage removed. Areas in the ward dramatically changed in demographics. Many of those dwellings sold under those conditions went into disrepair or default.
Originally his ward headquarters and palace was on 51st street just west of Damen Avenue. Today’s palace is just off of Pulaski Road near the Madam Curie high school just off of Archer Avenue miles away.
His ward now consists of areas carved from parts of the 12th (known as Mc Kinley Park and Brighton Park) and parts of the 23rd (known as Archer Heights Garfield Ridge and Clearing) wards Miles from the original 14th That In a former section of the 23rd ward now the 14th ward in the Midway airport area, 2 patrons in a local bar along Archer avenue were heard complaining about rats in their garbage. They felt it was because of the delay in garbage collection. Also heard the same beef about street snow removal. It has also played hell on zoning and because of the disruption of jurisdictions with the administration of city services such as streets and sanitation which the alderman (salary $120.000 plus allocations on local projects) do oversee and have input over.
By.employing this concept of remapping are residents are being denied the representation they should have ?
“but it’s not “democratic” socialism, no one has tried that!”
yes, they are that stupid.
Good, no, great.
It will hasten the demise of Chicago, then the few remaining people of Illinois (if there are any) can rebuild the state using productive citizens.
Jerry Della Femina said in a book written decades ago that a great ad agency could even make Chicago look like a place where you would want to spend more than fifteen minutes. I spent nine weeks in winter and early spring in Chicago back in ‘72 going to a company training school and the only thing I saw that I considered memorable was the Field Museum which was impressive.
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