Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
This is the beginning of the end of the Big 10 pipeline to Chicago. These people run the city. They’re the partners at law, consulting and accounting firms. They’re the doctors in your hospitals, the owners of prosperous small businesses, the professors at your colleges and the school teachers in the highest paying school districts. Most of them came to Chicago from somewhere else before they ended up here. If the pipeline dries up, much of our region’s prosperity will be gone, and most of Chicagoland will look crappy and run down like Elgin, Rockford, or Joylet.
Or Detroit. I don’t think any of those inbound brainiacs are moving to Evanston either!
Correct, smart people have had enough of the Dysfunction That Is Evanston and are moving on…