Emanuel sees no way to get the Blue Model* to work in Chicago, and the Blue Model is what Democrats propose for the whole nation.Should readers from outside Chicagoland care? Yes, because Emanuel’s surprise exit is a sign of the unworkability of policies that will go national if Resistance Democrats oust Donald Trump...
Chicago and Illinois have been hobbled by metastasizing pension obligations, frozen in place by state courts and state House speaker Michael Madigan. Taxes have been rising: Shoppers on North Michigan Avenue pay the nation’s highest taxes.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he won’t run for a third term next February.
Emanuel sees no way to get the Blue Model* to work in Chicago, and the Blue Model is what Democrats propose for the whole nation.
And so people are leaving Chicago. Where will they go when the whole nation is ruled by the Blue Model? They will have no choice outside of leaving the country but to accept a lower standard of living.
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*What is the Blue Model? Briefly, generous welfare and government services paid for by high taxes. In Chicago this includes big pensions and salaries for public sector unions, tax money to benefit certain elite and well connected groups of people.
I have an equally dismal prediction for cities like Chicago, and that is that they'll never stop voting for Democrats who will continue to implement their failed ideologies. There's this generational inculcation that Dems will take care of them, and have their best interests at heart.To be fair, neither blue nor red politicians can succeed in governing Chicago.
People have no choice but to leave the city.
Such large migrations from American cities are nothing new.
Unfortunately, the fate for Chicago was set a long way back. Too many parts prone to the worst violence in the nation, fiscal promises impacting budgets out decades from now, and horrible mismanagement all along the way.
I’m not entirely convinced a solid Republican control or solid Democrat control for 10 or more years would change anything.
No.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he won’t run for a third term next February.
Emanuel sees no way to get the Blue Model* to work in Chicago, and the Blue Model is what Democrats propose for the whole nation.
And so people are leaving Chicago. Where will they go when the whole nation is ruled by the Blue Model? They will have no choice outside of leaving the country but to accept a lower standard of living.
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*What is the Blue Model? Briefly, generous welfare and government services paid for by high taxes. In Chicago this includes big pensions and salaries for public sector unions, tax money to benefit certain elite and well connected groups of people.
Republicans cannot run the White House without making a new scandal every week.
Is this the thread where non-Chicagoans pretend that people are fleeing the city in droves and that Democrats are completely responsible for the State of Illinois fiscal issues?
The pension issue is quite real, and a large bulk of it represents GOP reluctance to raise taxes to pay for stuff they’ve already committed to. Yanno- like they have been doing nationally the last couple years.
Good, effective policies are what the people want. Scandals come mainly from the inability of the left to accept the results of a free and fair election, so I and many others tend to discount them.
To be fair, neither blue nor red politicians can succeed in governing Chicago.
People have no choice but to leave the city.
Such large migrations from American cities are nothing new.
How many guilty verdicts does Trump have with people in his inner circle?
Good, effective policies are what the people want. Scandals come mainly from the inability of the left to accept the results of a free and fair election, so I and many others tend to discount them.
Dude you’ve more than likely never even been to Chicago.No.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he won’t run for a third term next February.
Emanuel sees no way to get the Blue Model* to work in Chicago, and the Blue Model is what Democrats propose for the whole nation.
And so people are leaving Chicago. Where will they go when the whole nation is ruled by the Blue Model? They will have no choice outside of leaving the country but to accept a lower standard of living.
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*What is the Blue Model? Briefly, generous welfare and government services paid for by high taxes. In Chicago this includes big pensions and salaries for public sector unions, tax money to benefit certain elite and well connected groups of people.
Red policies would work, but no one would be able to implement them, neither left nor right. As is the case in Washington, DC, the entire apparatus of the government with all its faceless and unaccountable bureaucrats would be working against them.
The end game for this mess was revealed in Detroit. It turns out the city council was expecting a bailout from the Federal Government. The plan seems to be to run all the institutions in the US into the ground and have the Feds take them over or else declare that the market economy has failed and implement socialism.
Really now. When have Republicans ever had a say in taxes or spending in Chicago? Democrats have run Chicago for a long time. Do they have any responsibility at all for what's going on there?
The poorest states are red states....year in and year out
The poorest states are red states....year in and year out
How many guilty verdicts does Trump have with people in his inner circle?
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