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.
I’ve always believed that lifeblood of Chicago is the pipeline of Big 10 grads (and other selective colleges) to corporate jobs in Chicago. These residents fill the office towers downtown, they frequent the restaurants, they pay nearly all of the taxes, they make the civic donations and they commit to raising their family in Illinois. They create the jobs that hire the locals. Chicago cannot sustain itself at its current level without this pipeline. This is what makes Chicago the capital of the midwest. Chicago will still exist without this pipeline, but it’s Chicago, and other cities will benefit from… Read more »
The Public Unions have put the Chitty on a path of destruction. No looking back now, disaster is cast in stone.
Illinois Dems and Public Unions have put the Chitty on a path of fiscal destruction.