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Chicago's suburbs are very different from the city itself. For one thing, the suburbs don't have the racial discrimination-based home equity insurance program.
Silly argument esp regarding Evanston. Parking costs $2.50 on the south side of Howard and $1 on the north side of Howard, so there's that.
The welfare state did not cause black family disintegration. The end of the mid-20th century labor shortage did.
Ahh, it's capitalism's fault
We heard that excuse before. Strangely enough "racist capitalism" seems to be having no affect on Asian Americans who now have a higher median income than whites.
Who knew whites were also "victims" of capitalism?
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If your choice is between subsistence on welfare, and disappearance off the dole, who wouldn't choose the dole? Democratic welfare policies make perfect political sense given the massive, intractable forces arrayed against the unskilled of any race.
My choice was to serve my country, get an education, and learn a marketable skill
Not have kids out of wedlock then depend on Uncle Sam to legislate me out of poverty.
I'm a black American, but I'm not a victim. Your white guilt liberalism has done nothing for the community. I repeat, I am not a victim.
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I do not fault them for advocating for their interests in the best way they can. I do the same from my own completely different place in society. And there but for the grace of God go I.
Then do not cry over the blood and deaths in these communicates as a result of these liberal policies that provide a financial incentive for poor single parent households.
A poor little black baby somewhere in soutshide Chicago is at a high risk of growing up and shooting up his own neighborhood all because there was no father figure in his life. Thank you Democrats. Paying poor single people to have kids, but punishing them when they have a working father in the house, is really helping the community.
I wonder what other shooting records Chicagoans will break this month. Gotta' get those numbers in before winter.
Rahm Emanuel, to his credit, has governed as a pro-business moderate, not a raving liberal:
Too bad he won't adopt conservative policies, such as better access to guns for law-abiding citizens, or Rudy G's 'broken window' policies, when it comes to the city's social problems.
Chicago is what it is: high earning potential but otherwise a rough place to start a business, and a great place to run a business when you have the money/contacts to get what you want.
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Go to Chicago if you want a good paying job. Companies are moving their headquarters there, tech giants are hiring and fighting the tech start-up for top talent, and all-around things are going great.
Oh yeah, some idiots will come here and say, "It's all thanks to Trump!!" But they are idiots. The only thing Trump did for Chicago is to send in the feds..... Oh wait, he didn't even do that!! Trump has done nothing for Obama's home city. Yet here they are.
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And hope you don’t die. 53 people shot this weekend. But blame the guns, not the hood rats pulling the trigger.
Well the 1800 jobs that are certain are moving from up the street. The Facebook jobs are maybe, 2000 anticipated jobs...sounds good and may be good but you are overplaying it.
Yeah, one relocation within the city and two "coulds" plus 599 job openings.
That's the best spin the OP could put on the situation.
I grew up in Illinois, I lived in Chicago, most of family is still back there and this is an incredibly stupid thread.
Illinois is in a *MASSIVE* amount of financial trouble, worse than any other state.
They tried to cut their own retirees teacher pensions, anyone that wants to intelligently discuss this issue let that sink in first.
Voter registration/ turnout is typically very low in the gang- infested communities.
The carnage includes the far West side of Chicago, too.
It's still under democratic leadership nonetheless. The people who live in these communities are either incredibly patient with their incompetent democratic leadership or they're insane for thinking the same party would change anything.
I wouldn't be able to live in areas where bullets are whizzing past me every other day.
59 people shot, 8 people dead, since friday and the weekend is not over yet. So much for Black Lives Matter.
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