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.”
People can’t figure him out now because he’s no longer standing for anything at all. He’s been reduced to a pile of feathers, comfortable, don’t rock the boat, I didn’t win a single battle, they wore me out, I don’t give a damn, I give up, I didn’t know what I really stood for, I don’t care anymore, etc. Any one of these phrases is now as good as the next. Yes a rudderless boat.
Spot on. He has deferred to the mrs because “She’s a great gal and I love her and my head is spinning snyway.” That’s what it seems like! The problem with rich people (haha, God love ‘em, tho!) is that they need a cause to feel fulfilled, busywork to “pay” for their blessings / good fortune. But they are insulated and many have a rather lazy, narrow, unchanging vision of their “lessers.” This is not 1900s Hull House. Mrs R is not Jane Addams. Things are different, made much worse by government do-gooder interference. Mrs R seems to feel that… Read more »
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Great comment Kathy. It’s beyond me why folks like Mrs. R can’t or won’t recognize the ruinous trajectory we are on. She’s smart, as are most of my liberal friends, but their inability to see the obvious is a mystery to me. The only “argument” they offer when confronted with facts is “shut up.” That’s why I’m convinced that nothing will change in this state until we experience complete economic collapse.