It shouldn’t have taken a PhD in economics to notice this – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 17, 2024
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What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
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"What began as legitimate protest over the police murder of George Floyd ended with what is likely to be permanent economic loss to struggling areas of Chicago...The failures were multidimensional."
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The Chicago Teachers Union Plays Hooky – Wirepoints in the Wall Street Journal*
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The protest was a riot intended to allow the permanent victim class to loot to get things they wanted. Pure and simple. And it was encouraged by Lori and the Democratic Party including senile Biden and radical blm supporter vp Harris.
Screw you Lori, my family has been in Chicago longer than yours. Go back to Ohio and never come back.
Legitimate Protest, that’s darling. Followed by a mostly peaceful riot. The Tribune has relegated themselves to the dumpster; by choice….Cowards.
When they refuse to examine the root causes of problems, fixing those problems is not possible. That is why Chicago (and IL) is failing and will fail.
The root causes are hard! And the reality is, maybe these problems are unfixable, certainly without the community wanting to fix the problems themselves, starting with behavior. The history of the world is that most people have been poor and yet few of them in the past had the modern problems of today. Decades of free welfare, absent parents, drugs, glorification of the thug life, out of wedlock parentage, not caring about education. These problems transcend race, we have plenty of white poverty in the rural areas (14% of Hamilton County, IL is below the poverty level and it’s 99%… Read more »
“What began as legitimate protest over the police murder of George Floyd…”
Legitimate? Legitmate? I hate the Tribune.