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Obama08
Chicago, IL
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The People's Republic of Chicago. Pure socialism!! That's what we love here in Crook County, IL. All of the kool-aid drinkers here have the representational government that they deserve.
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Yes to Socialism
Chicago, IL
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Sheki wrote: This being a democracy, it would appear that this level of government regulation is what the citizens have asked for. I would prefer that to having the editors of some right-wing rag run my city. Glorious Socialist Brethren: Fear not! We will not allow this right-wing reactionary Chicago Tribune detract from our socialist, progressive agenda! As you know, we are trying to create a new urban utopia from coast to coast and our great leader, Barack Obama, is our vanguard! For those right-wing dogs that decry our efforts to codify every single aspect of human activity, we say higher taxes and off to the reeducation camps! There is no place for you in our glorious communal state!
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Not From Indy
South Bend, IN
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Maybe it should just be named the city of "meddling shoulders"
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AGW
Cayce, SC
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Chicago in last place among cities to do dirt in? I'll take it. That's called progress. Improve the school system, develop the neighborhoods that are crime ridden and impoverished, create more jobs, and Chicago will be the best city in the country. The positives of reducing smoking and drinking can be measured in good health. Who says hanging out in bars and pouring poison down one's throat ever added to the quality of life in any city?
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Tony
Munster, IN
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Great Story!!!! Absolutely true.....
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O-Bummer
Chicago, IL
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Great City, but the democratic socialist republic - better known as neo-socialism - that's been created here is appalling.
How do people accept this? Hey, vote for me & I'll do the same thing to the entire country! Yes, I can!
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Pelon
Chicago, IL
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This goes to prove that democRATS like Daley, Stroger and Blago. Needs to go NOW!
Vote these bums out of office and give us back our freedoms and lower our taxes!
Time for a Boston style tea party in Chicago!
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Second City Son
Overland Park, KS
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Hopefully the irony (or hypocrisy?) that this lead article appears the day after this very same paper advocated for repealing one of the amendments from the Bill of Rights is not lost on too many
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RomanB
Chicago, IL
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Chicago is the best city to live in in the USA. Period.
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DBX
Lake Zurich, IL
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Sheki wrote: This being a democracy, it would appear that this level of government regulation is what the citizens have asked for. I would prefer that to having the editors of some right-wing rag run my city. The problem I have with that comment is the entrenched nature of incumbents in this state in general and this city in particular. Illnois election laws make it very easy for people with establishment connections to fund their elections in a shady way or kick competitors off the ballot. And very difficult for newcomers to get in unless they have a lot of money or institutional backing. Which brings us back to square one again, doesn't it. Government in Illinois is about regulating and nickel-and-diming the little people, while letting the big people get away with whatever they want and not taxing them very much. The poorest 20 percent in Illinois pay more in state and local taxes than in all but three other states according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. The only people in Illinois who pay significantly less than in other states are the top 20 percent. The middle class pay the same to slightly more than other neighboring states for much less in the way of public services. And yet we're 45th in the nation in state revenue, for a variety of reasons ranging from low corporate taxes to poorly invested state assets. And by the way Governing magazine rates only two states as being worse governed than Illinois -- Alabama and California. No wonder commenters on this board hate government here.
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Yes to Socialism
Chicago, IL
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This is what happens when neo-Marxists gain control of the city council, the county board and state offices. It is swiftly becoming an intolerable place to live. Does the city "look" great? Sure, but I hear that they do a nice job with trash removal, landscaping and large-scale public works projects in Pyongyang also.
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Paul
Richmond, VA
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I don't care what the above article says. I would leave Richmond, Virginia in a second to come back to live in Chicago.
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charles robb
Lake Worth, FL
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Ted's right, Matt's an idiot and Daley's father must be turning over in his grave over what his son had done to Chicago. Notice I said to not for.
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mike
Rolling Meadows, IL
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Dane wrote: "Chicago reigns supreme when it comes to treating its citizens like children (Las Vegas topped our rankings as America's freest city). Chicagoans pay the second-highest cigarette tax in the country, and the sixth-highest tax on alcohol. Chicago has more traffic-light cameras than any city in America (despite studies questioning their effectiveness), restricts cell phone use while driving, and it's quickly moving toward a creepy public surveillance system similar to London's."
Says you..... Without these taxes we would be just another big city on the lake... Like Milwaukee, Cleveland and Toledo...
Fun and free!!!!!
and.....
"In cities such as San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Ore., this embrace of "for your own good" paternalism has at least been offset by a more tolerant attitude on issues such as gay rights, or taking an approach to drug use that's more oriented toward treatment than punishment. In many cities, it may soon be easier to smoke a joint than a cigarette."
I lived in Portland.... It is the most homophobic place on earth.... They have a slang word for the gay area (hahahaha - they are sooo funny) and God forbid you had a conversation with someone there.... You think they would be stoned, but no, they are just dull rude people..... Good luck asking anyone for directions in that dumb town..... Whoohoo.... Free...... Smae with fake San Fran.... Wow I love a city where it cost 3 mill for a house but not one space for a tree.... Pretty.....
and.....
Seattle.... Biggest susicide rate in the country.... Do you blame them?????? No one says hi to you and your cranked on bad coffee.....
Nope, bottom line.... Chicago is the best place in the country... I have lived all over the place... This City by the lake is the friendliest, cleanest and safest city in the USA!!!!
BTW... Crime has dropped 15% in London since the Cameras.... They are in other cities too, not just London... Glasgow, Leeds and even Oxford... Makes you think twice weeing in the alley when boozy.......
Think I will pay more for taxes and get more for my money.... Yes and 1984 was too good for you, the book i mean. I had heard that after a while slaves learn to love their chains. I never believed it until I read your post.
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Since: Oct 07
Willowbrook, IL
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Please wait...
The corrupt political machine continues to slowly and incrementally roll forward:
- taking our parks and giving them to a select few despite majority outcry
- stealing the character of our neighborhoods through a corrupt permit system and aldermanic prerogative in bed with developers
- wasting our hard earned money through over taxation to make up for fraud, ghost payrollers, and sweet-heart deals with business run by friends and family of the machine
The only thing the corrupt political machine can do is pontificate over the absurd – to ban or not ban goose liver pate.
Meanwhile it seems like every other day some child is shot in violence.
We really need to ban together and kick the bums out of office.
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DBX
Lake Zurich, IL
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AGW wrote: Chicago in last place among cities to do dirt in? I'll take it. That's called progress. Improve the school system, develop the neighborhoods that are crime ridden and impoverished, create more jobs, and Chicago will be the best city in the country. The positives of reducing smoking and drinking can be measured in good health. Who says hanging out in bars and pouring poison down one's throat ever added to the quality of life in any city? One of the last cities to do dirt in? You've got to be kidding me, right? Our political class is deeply corrupt, neighborhoods are starting to get significantly damaged by pay for play zoning, the wealth inequality is staggering due in large part to years of Illinois bankrupting the poor and giving the spoils to the rich, and the whole place reminds me rather of satire about government that was written in Tsarist Russia. Progress was genuinely made here in the 1980s and 1990s; it has stagnated and in some cases gone into reverse. I admit that a large share of the blame rests with the state rather than the city, and in the county's case with being stiffed by Medicare on reimbursements, but the city's culture of corruption does not help. And let's just not even get started on the disaster of our county government, which would rather run a patronage machine than public services. What does it all mean in practice for average Joe voter? It means your back garden is likely to be shaded out by a politically connected developer who exceeds the building height limit on a variance; it means development in general gets loaded on a neighborhood that can't handle any more of it, or steered away from a neighborhood that desperately needs it purely for political reasons; it means your public services will be poorer if you live in the "wrong" neighborhood; it means your transit is unreliable and run-down; it means your every move is photographed; and it means that the substantial gains that were made ten or fifteen years ago by the people who still run us now (e.g. better schools, better parks, etc. etc.) have petered out as it has become more comfortable simply to line the pockets of the politically preferred.
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J Seville
Chicago, IL
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Does this really suprise anyone with the fat corrupt little pig mayor we have. CHicago has become the city of elitists, a city were if you have enough money you can have whatever you want. Poor and middle class people arent allowed to own guns for protection and Daley can disregard the constitution and get away with it. And to think that people actually want Obama in office is really sad. Its sad that with the beautiful city that we have we have the most anti-american, corrupt politics in all the land.
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mike
Rolling Meadows, IL
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Really? I think you are the a******. I have lived here since 1948 and this isn't a city anymore, its an open air prison. You are a fool MDK wrote: <quoted text>
Maybe you are too young to remember what Chicago was like in the 60's and 70's. A shit hole. This city was a dump! It's so beautiful now that tourist even come. We used to be known as the slaughterhouse capital of the world with gangsters at every corner. Now we are known for our culture, architecture and beautiful lakefront.
All of you idiots that think that this city is going down the drain; well, you obviously have not lived here very long.
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Ken in Aurora
Lafayette, IN
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Radley Balko, please move to the People's Republic of Daleystan, er, Chicago and run for mayor! At least set up camp here and become a thorn in the side of the entrenched governmental nannies. Please?
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J Seville
Chicago, IL
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mike wrote: <quoted text>Yes and 1984 was too good for you, the book i mean.
I had heard that after a while slaves learn to love their chains. I never believed it until I read your post. People who have been slaves all their lives sometimes dont know how to handle freedom and would rather revert to being a slave. I wouldnt be suprised in 10 years of so if cameras were installed in everybodies home in order to preserve our best interest. When Obama ran for senator he promised change from this, instead things have gotten worse. This is the change he has brought to chicago/illinois.
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