A statewide concern: Illinois’ population decline outpaces neighboring states – Wirepoints on ABC20 Champaign
“We are not in good shape” Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski told ABC 20 Champaign during a segment on Illinois’ latest population losses. Illinois was one of just three states to shrink in the 2010-2020 period and has lost another 300,000 people since then. Ted says things need to change. “It’s too expensive to live here, there aren’t enough good jobs and nobody trusts the government anymore. There’s just other places to go where you can be more satisfied.”
Unencumbered from mayoral responsibilities, I think Emmanuel makes some good points about the nature of elitists (ironically, he is one of them). And he was in the Obama administration, and was involved in making some of the pro-elitists decisions, such as bailing out the bankers in 2008-2010 and the proliferation of crony deals (Solyndra, etc). . But he has no place in the Democratic Party any longer. He states that socialism isn’t the answer? This isn’t where a significant majority of the Democratic Party is today, and I see no future for him in politics if he decries socialism (even… Read more »