Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the growing anger of Chicagoans, the fact that Detroit and Chicago appear to be trading places, the fact that Chicago has the worst credit rating of big cities, the continuing failure of CPS officials to educate their students, why it’s wrong to get rid of ShotSpotter, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Detroit and Chicago: Trading places
- Chicago crime still up 40% over 2019 as Johnson implements police hiring freeze
- Mayor Johnson’s spending decisions, falling revenues mean Chicagoans likely to get hit with 2025 property tax hike
- Chicago’s Southland residents are irate about their property tax hikes. Wait till they see how their money is being spent.
- Chicago’s worst-in-nation pension crisis strikes again
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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.
Do you see anyone from the democrat/media/union trifecta worried? Have any of them even mentioned this? It’s all ignored. Such news doesn’t even exist. You slaves don’t need to know this. Your masters are more concerned about what they can tax next to keep the gravy train going. The slaves concerns are less than nothing to them because the slaves are less than nothing to them. If you don’t already see what’s coming your way, you are just the type of simp they love. If you do see it and stay, don’t complain when the ceiling crashes in on you.
They are also looking for which public property they can sell off to cover the deficit.
DETROIT. Founded by the French in 1701. Rose over 260 years and collapsed in 10. Opportunistic city officers — mayor: jailed; CFO: resigned under pressure. Self-ennriching pesion lawyer. Pension board members kept city salaries while having no duties except to attend “investment seminars” in pleasant climates at pension fund expense. White flight and business flight to suburbs. Vandals and arsonists. Public employee unions and radical clergy and other Democrat Pols worked together to undermine efforts to slow or stop the gravy train. Disruptions and demonsrations on command with acccompanying libel, slander and character assination of well-intentioned reformers. Compromised profiteering actuaries… Read more »
Progressive liberal Chicagoans would rather virtue-signal than vote in their own best interests. Whoever thought an inexperienced low-level CTU organizer and new hand-picked junior Cook County Commissioner is also qualified to be a big city mayor was either delusional, or intent in further weakening Chicago itself.
Too many Chicagoans were swayed by Johnson’s leftist socialist sentiment, that we shall be made “equal” if our government redistributes wealth taken from employed taxpayers and given to poorly-educated unemployed (and now also non-resident “recently arriving migrants”) likely to be permanently dependent upon government handouts.
You get what you vote for or are too indifferent to vote at all.
Obviously city & state machine pols are sheepishly waiting for outcome of Nov 5th for cover to see what they can get away with on dopey taxpayers in fall veto session.
Yep, and Democratic politicians at that.
Dan Profts voice and body language says everything. He knows Chicago is a lost cause. Ted, however, still speaks as if there is a small hope for Chicago. To decide which of these 2 good men is the most realistic, I would ask the elderly black woman from the recording, “Did you vote for Brandon?” If she says yes, then Chicago has no hope.
Coleman Young, he was a Black Separatist/Communist, who thought he was going to build a black shining city on a hill. Everyone should read about what happened, it’s fascinating.
At a point in time, and it wasn’t that long ago, Chicago was referred to as “the city that works”. Now that city doesn’t work on any level. Greed, corruption, malfeasance, zero accountability, laziness and incompetence all come to mind when thinking about Chicago. Time to start over.
Interesting discussion. One could point out differences between the two cities but the commonalities are striking. Going forward, one has to be concerned about population loss in Chicago, particularly the productive cohort as they pay the bills in a city and culture determined to maintain a large government enterprise.