Ted joined Jeff Daly to talk about why Illinois is losing its brainpower – well-educated residents – to out-migration, the $2.2 billion spent by Illinois on migrant welcoming programs alone, the news of Elon Musk and others helping expose Illinois’ education failures on X, the latest data related to the SAFE-T Act, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- The well-educated are fleeing Illinois, too.
- ‘Welcoming’ programs increase the cost of illegal immigration in Illinois by at least $2.2 billion.
- Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and others draw attention to Illinois’ dismal education results.
- DEI continues to flourish at the University of Illinois even as universities across the country scale back programs
- Jail populations shrink, electronic monitoring drops and appeals opposing detention orders ‘skyrocket’: Three concerns about impact of Illinois’ no-cash bail law
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Illinois is losing its “brainpower” because of Governor Pritzker. He is solely responsible for outmigration. High taxes, gun violence, no cash bail, government unions, and underachieving schools, too. Also responsible for illegal migration, displacing Americans to give their housing to illegals, forcing residents to carry guns because he refuses to protect them and the loss of good paying jobs. He supports turning young men into women and young women into men. If he doesn’t change his opinions and stop harassing other politicians until they agree with him, the great exodus will continue. Hello Portland and Seattle!
MAYBE HE SHOULD BE RECALLED???? PUT AN END TO HIS BS
Why would he want to keep brainpower in Chicago? Idiots like their own!!!
Wirepoints! How many times do we need to go over this? Fixating on giving up and leaving Illinois is a losing approach. Johnson has a terrible approval rate and the Democrat party is an easy target! We need to focus on internal motivation and teamwork. Here’s some material from a motivational and inspiring project I’m curating. The objective of the project is to inspire others to look within themselves for courage. These images are from a pamphlet written by a distinguished executive in WWII. Instead of complaining or fighting with pacifists and other factions in the politics of the time,… Read more »
Every member of this family contributed to this pamphlet. Some wrote poems, others focused on family life, motherhood, etc.
EVERYTHING DEMS ARE AGAINST!!
There’s no mention of what others offer, disinvestment, government welfare or any outside support. This is what America is all about and this was probably the most challenging time in our nation’s history. The biggest takeaway from this is that YOU should be thinking about what you can do to make the world a better place. Running away isn’t going to solve your problems. What can you do to help kids and those important to you?
Dave, you are wasting your time forever telling us to suppress bad news. We call things as we see them. When we see sources of optimism we salute them. When we see problems we identify them.
Spot on Mark. The left has a big problem with causation and effects. They also can’t seem to call a spade a spade.
Some people just can’t seem to wrap their heads around the fact that America has been changed, by design, very quickly and irrevocably since 2020. The tired old cliches of WW II no longer apply in a world where a lot of people don’t even realize what that war was about and who fought in it. Our leaders have the support and votes of millions that can’t define what constitutes a woman, think one’s gender is up for question in the third grade, sees working and paying taxes as an abomination and feels life long violent criminals are victims. Change… Read more »
Old Joe, I agree that, for the near future for IL, it doesn’t matter who wins this November. However, a Republican administration would be less likely to throw large amounts of money at mismanaged blue states to keep them afloat. That, in turn, could accelerate a sort of reincarnation of IL in the future via bankruptcy or other mechanism. Hope springs eternal. BTW, I’m neither a Trump nor Biden fan.
Sorry, replied to the right commenter but used the wrong hook.
more like mark lenin
Agreed. We’ve taken back plenty of other states in my lifetime, but sometimes I think the WP staff just exists to tell us all that surrender is the only option. Pretty weak.
Illinois is and will be a lost cause. BUT there is hope outside the state. I don’t think the forces at work in Illinois will be changing the way they do things for quite some time. They will inevitably run the state and city into some Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome place which will be unrecognizable. I don’t have any faith in who currently runs things to think any of this will change. This is what people wanted and they are delivering on their promises to remake the world into their Marxist version.
100% correct. I like to ask people if Detroit or Baltimore ever learned anything on its descent into blight. The answer is no, they never learned anything. History is full of cities that were abandoned and forgotten and never returned to their former glory. There’s a story by an ancient Greek author Xenephon writing in the 300’s BC I believe about how he marched past great abandoned cities with walls 50′ wide and 100′ feet tall and 21 miles long, and when he asked the locals who built these structures, no one knew. For thousands of year no one knew… Read more »
You seem to like this material so for once I am going to support the pamphlets but allow me to add a few things. These were written at a time where we had emerged as the sole victorious world power when others has been literally bombed into submission. GIs came home and had strong families with great jobs. The 50s were a time of great economic strength and unsurpassed power. These values you share are long gone in urban America. While individual families can still raise their children with a strong moral compass it is getting harder to do that… Read more »
No, this was written in 1941 to promote morale and allied solidarity. Guess what? It worked great and that’s why I’m resurrecting them! This pamphlet was in direct response to early battles like The Battle of Britain and intended to mitigate defeatism and air raid induced mass panic. Panic is the worst thing you can do in a war. If everyone ran for the country, London would be difficult to defend, supply lines could fail, and Britain could have lost. The same is true for Illinois.
You’re twisting the lesson and promoting defeatism.
Bingo!