Wirepoints’ Matt Rosenberg joined Garry Meier to talk all about Chicago – its crime, its economy, its people and its politics – and Matt’s new book “What Next, Chicago?: Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son.”
Segment with Matt begins at 31:00.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Fresh CPD data: No, Chief Brown, carjackings are not down in Chicago. Not anymore.
- Chief Executive Magazine ranks Illinois third-worst state for doing business, yet Illinois politicians think businesses will move here because of…“equity!”
- Chicago car thefts spike sharply in 2022, up 100% along lakefront compared to 2019
- Close the revolving door for high-risk offenders in Cook County
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Gary, to test your theory about Chicago being in the same predicament if the right had been running the place for 90 years, why don’t you research cities/states around the country where Republicans have in fact been in charge for 90 years. I’m sure there are at least a few. Have another show on your findings. That would be interesting listening. So many high minded people willing to make excuses that it’s the political process and not the people and their views responsible for cultural/societal rot and decay. Daley was fixing elections back in the 60s. But at least the… Read more »
Spot on. To be fair he should do a comparison.
Also, he should connect the dots on all Democrat run big city shitholes. Why are there no exceptions? And he must conclude that since the voters keep electing these Dems, the voters prefer high levels of crime and living in a shithole to the alternative. See the world for what it actually is.
Absolutely and sad to say, it sounds like you know what’s coming and what we are in for. If we value the American Way of Life, everything we stand for is on the line. Everything. The cities make easy targets for these culture war Marxists and Anarchists. Many cities have been slowly rotting for years and in some cases it might just take vigilante justice to force it back the other way. It also might be too late. There are most certainly law abiding gun owners everywhere. The thing is, most rational human beings won’t stand up and fight. They… Read more »