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As depressing as it is we have a Chicago election coming up. For the state election I vote straight Republican or I leave it blank or if faced with judges I vote them all out. For the City/county there is NO CHOICE! Not a Republican candidate in sight. My Alderman registers as a Independent (in private, Republican). I hate to sound racist, but, I would not consider ANY minority candidate, My taxes are all up now, they will only get way worse under that type of leadership. Who ever wins, will have to raise taxes,no way around it, the city/county,State is beyond broke. I just want to spread the pain, not bare the entire amount as a homeowner in a nice area of the city. Any advice from our other suffering Chicago residents as to who the best of the worse mayoral candidates might be. SOOOOOOOOO SAD! | ||
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I'm going with Joyce. | |||
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Big Bill Thompson | |||
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D. None of the above "No matter where you go - there you are" | |||
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Move. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Well, the place is fucked either way you go. Does it really matter?  _____________ | |||
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Would you mind sharing your opinion of Garry McCarthy? I was impressed with his standing on the front lines and getting shoved around during the NATO summit. Was that just for show? Year V | |||
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Here is a video on what common sense voting looks and feels like in Chicago and St. Louis City: | |||
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I too was impressed with his performance at the NATO conference. He led from the front something I have never seen here. But after that he assisted Tiny Dancer in the destruction of the Chicago Police. He allowed Tiny Dancer to reduce the number of Officers in the CPD, he closed Area Headquarters and District Stations, he eliminated Citywide Units, something I consider a huge mistake in fighting crime in any City. He signed off on a Consent Decree based on a bogus and flawed report, a Decree which will have negative impact on the City of Chicago and it's residents for years. He met with the parishoner's of a southside church and told them a lie, that lie being that the violence in Chicago is due to too many guns, not the truth which is that it is the sons and even some of those same parishoner's that are responsible for all the shootings. He could have been a star but instead he is nothing more than a carpetbagger who will only make things worse if he wins which I doubt. Having said all that, I'd take him in a heartbeat over some of the other anti-American Police hatin shithead Democrats who will absolutely destroy Chicago if they win. If Toni Preckwinkle wins there is not going to ever be a chance for Chicago to regain or become what it once was. | |||
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I feel your pain.... But I think Illinois is too far down the rabbit hole of debt to save by voting. Chicago has been the driver, but the entire state is bankrupt. In Springfield the only plan is "pretend and extend" hoping a future Democrat President and Congress will bail out the State. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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I think it always matters. At least for my own piece of mind. Voting is the tool given to the people to change things, staying home and doing nothing accomplishes nothing. In this case I can only hope to vote for the best of the worse, the worse, is a lot worse, than the best of the worse. I'm retired but my wife still works and will for several more years, when I can, I'm GONE! For now I try to protect the value of what I have until I can escape. I will investigate Joyce, I will also monitor the poles,I will ultimately place a vote as a blocking effort to try and prevent a total disaster from winning the election. | |||
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Your options are 'None of the Above'. The real choice is what state to move to. I will move to Colorado, Texas or Arizona once I get the wife to agree. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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Yes, you're right, of course. But it brings up the age old question "Fight, or flight?" When fighting the democrat/socialist/communists becomes futile, sometimes the best choice remaining is to flee somewhere where freedom is ascendant. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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This article is about 10 months old... Illinois shows increased debt, worst in nation March 28, 2018 A new report about Illinois’ finances raises fresh questions about the state’s ability to pay its bills on time. In one year alone, Illinois state government’s long-term net deficit ballooned more than $10 billion. A government finance watchdog says that’s a sign of the state’s continued debt-heavy condition. Including pension liabilities and bonded debt, the most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the state of Illinois had the net long-term deficit at $141.7 billion. The near-term deficit for the state was $14.6 billion. The CAFR also said the state’s increase in liabilities, mainly from an increase in net pension liabilities, grew more than $29 billion to a total of $214.8 billion as of June 30, 2017. The fiscal year covered was one where state lawmakers did not pass a full year’s spending plan. Government finance watchdog Truth in Accounting Research Director Bill Bergman said it’s a sign the state’s debt problem is getting worse. “It’s a trainwreck,” Bergman said. “The rate of deterioration accelerated last year.” Bergman said the report might not be the entire picture because it’s already old data. “The report is for a fiscal year that ended June 30, 2017,” Bergman said. “And so we’re now just learning about a fiscal year that ended more than 265 days ago.” The next fiscal year begins July 1. Bergman said the report for fiscal 2017 did highlight the $806 million cost of not paying bills on time. “And, in fact, they expect it to grow in the future, not shrink,” Bergman said. “That’s what they say in the report. That’s a little harrowing. So, have a nice day, Illinois.” With $7.4 billion in bills owed to third parties, the state racked up $226 million in fiscal 2017. It has paid an additional $580 million of the old debt in the current fiscal year, as of March 15, 2018, according to the Illinois auditor general’s report of the CAFR. Another area that saw increases in fiscal 2017 was deferred payments in the areas of the state employee self-insurance fund and the Medicaid program. Those liabilities shot up more than $1.8 billion to $6.1 billion. In other high-level figures, the largest expense for the fiscal year was health and social services at 40 percent of the budget, or $30.2 billion. Education took up 30 percent of the budget, or $22.3 billion. The auditor general report also said financial reporting problems continue at various agencies with only 16 percent of the 263 different reporting systems being compliant with the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The auditor general said both offices of the governor and comptroller agreed with the findings. Bergman said if the state doesn’t address out-of-control spending, the trend will continue, despite last summer’s income tax increase. “We’re also swimming against a river that includes people leaving the state and it’s going to be touch and go going forward,” Bergman said. “We need to address the finances of our state.” Of 43 states with available information about their finances, the auditor general said Illinois leads in major deficits with $141.7 long-term debt. Massachusetts was the second worst with less than half of Illinois’ debt, $63.4 billion. The CAFR’s outlook from the comptroller said the state’s “budgetary challenges along with the accumulated deficit in the General Fund, continued growth in the net pension liability and post-employment benefit costs, and rating downgrades on debt issuances of the state may impact the state’s ability to access credit markets to pay operational expenditures more timely and may increase interest costs of those borrowings.” https://www.daily-journal.com/...3c-d70bd2ec5c26.html "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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And it hasn't improved. According to the State Comptroller, IL currently has $7.9 Billion in unpaid bills, and owes $450 Million is late fees on those bills. https://illinoiscomptroller.go...parency-reports-dtr/ _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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Being a Chicago native, I am acquainted with the cast of characters to fill the mayoral office. This is a little blurb about the last Republican mayor, William Hale Thompson. See below: In 1993, a panel of distinguished historians named Chicago’s own William Hale Thomspon the worst mayor in American history. Illinois always deserves to win any worst-politician sweepstakes, but why was Thompson the baddest of our bad lot? Because he was Al Capone’s man in City Hall. | |||
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Living in NWI our news comes from Chicago and watching the parade of clowns is absolutely terrifying and I feel bad for the few decent people stuck there. " The people shall have a right to bear arms, for the defense of themselves and the State" Art 1 Sec 32 Indiana State Constitution YAT-YAS | |||
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