Rahm Emmanuel not running for third term!

[JoeB131]

Why Rahm bailed on reelection

My first thought- Good. He's been a terrible mayor overall. He improved the schools, but his management of the Police Department has been horrible.

He probably looked at the Van Dyke trial coming up this week and realized nothing good is going to come out of it for him. Best case, he's convicted and people will ask why Rahm covered for him... worst case, he's acquitted and we have race riots.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Why Rahm bailed on reelection

My first thought- Good. He's been a terrible mayor overall. He improved the schools, but his management of the Police Department has been horrible.

He probably looked at the Van Dyke trial coming up this week and realized nothing good is going to come out of it for him. Best case, he's convicted and people will ask why Rahm covered for him... worst case, he's acquitted and we have race riots.

Rahm has always been a corrupt piece of garbage.

Chicago will just elect the next corrupt piece of garbage.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

That's great, this dual-citizen of Israel, has done next to nothing about Chicago's alarming murder / shooting issues, furthermore, the dipsh*t went against Polish Pulaski day, and Italian Columbus day, but surprise, surprise not Jewish Holidays like Rosh Hashanah.

 

[Kondor3]

...My first thought- Good. He's been a terrible mayor overall...

Chicago has had a great many "terrible" mayors... some ineffective, some dictatorial...

The corruption of the Democratic Party Machine of Chicago and Cook County is legendary; hell, it was legendary back in the 1970s, when the Chicago Sun-Times award-winning reporter Mike Royko eviscerated King Richard I, in a scathing expose...

Chicago has been in a downward spiral since the last wave of the Great Migration in the 1940s-1950s.

Chicago has been controlled by Democrats for eighty-seven (87) years, since Anton Cermak took over in 1931, without any serious challenge to Democratic Party rule.

One crappy mayor has succeeded another, for many years now.

Rahm is just the latest in a long, long line of minority vote panderers and vote whores who give "a little room to destroy" [ Baltimore Mayor, (D) ] to the barbarian hordes on the South and West Sides.

The place is so far gone that it would probably make more sense to move the barbarians on the South and West Sides elsewhere, bulldoze the place down to the ground, and start over, with a different population not engaged in Slaughtering-Your-Neighbors as some sort of block-party game.

That's why they invented Gentrification, but it's a long, drawn-out process spanning decades, to reclaim the City from such riff-raff.

...He improved the schools, but his management of the Police Department has been horrible...

The cops are doing what they need to do; managing the riff-raff on the South and West Sides.

...He probably looked at the Van Dyke trial coming up this week and realized nothing good is going to come out of it for him. Best case, he's convicted and people will ask why Rahm covered for him...

Quite possibly.

...worst case, he's acquitted and we have race riots.

Fine. Let the barbarians riot. Let 'em burn down their own neighborhoods for the hundredth time to no avail. If it gets bad enough, the State will simply throw a Ring-of-Steel (the Illinois National Guard) around their ghettos and keep 'em separate from decent, sane folk until they over-drink and over-dope themselves into another stupor. Great fun.

 

[Penelope]

Why Rahm bailed on reelection

My first thought- Good. He's been a terrible mayor overall. He improved the schools, but his management of the Police Department has been horrible.

He probably looked at the Van Dyke trial coming up this week and realized nothing good is going to come out of it for him. Best case, he's convicted and people will ask why Rahm covered for him... worst case, he's acquitted and we have race riots.

Rahm has always been a corrupt piece of garbage.

Chicago will just elect the next corrupt piece of garbage.

That is because Daley was really a republican.
Is Mayor Daley Really a Republican? Too much privatization.

 

[Rustic]

Why Rahm bailed on reelection

My first thought- Good. He's been a terrible mayor overall. He improved the schools, but his management of the Police Department has been horrible.

He probably looked at the Van Dyke trial coming up this week and realized nothing good is going to come out of it for him. Best case, he's convicted and people will ask why Rahm covered for him... worst case, he's acquitted and we have race riots.

Rahm has always been a corrupt piece of garbage.

Chicago will just elect the next corrupt piece of garbage.

That is because Daley was really a republican.
Is Mayor Daley Really a Republican? Too much privatization.

Lol
You’re gullible

 

[Claudette]

I'm sure Chicago won't miss him.

Hell they will just elect another idiot to run the city into the ground.

Why anyone would live in Chicago is beyond me. You can get shot just walking down the street when the only people with guns are the criminals and gangbangers.

You can't buy a gun to defend yourself with in that city. Not for me.

 

[candycorn]

I kind of like it myself. On one hand, it would be great to watch Trump flop around like a bloated salmon out of the water. But on the other hand, it is good to have his words written down above his signature so there is no ambiguity about what is stated. It does underscore the truth in Woodward’s book about his choices being:

not to sit with Captain Mueller
or
a orange jump suit.

 

[Weatherman2020]

How the hell do the mods think a thread about Trump/Mueller is a duplicate to Rahm not running?

 

[JoeB131]

That's great, this dual-citizen of Israel, has done next to nothing about Chicago's alarming murder / shooting issues, furthermore, the dipsh*t went against Polish Pulaski day, and Italian Columbus day, but surprise, surprise not Jewish Holidays like Rosh Hashanah.

When did he do this? Frankly, Rahm has been all over sucking up to the white folks in Chicago...

It's just that there are less and less of them, and he's ticked off the Hispanics and blacks to no end.

 

[JoeB131]

Chicago has had a great many "terrible" mayors... some ineffective, some dictatorial...

I've lived her since Daley I, and no, none of them were as bad as Rahm. A few got voted out for a lot less than what he did.

 

[JoeB131]

I'm sure Chicago won't miss him.

Hell they will just elect another idiot to run the city into the ground.

Why anyone would live in Chicago is beyond me. You can get shot just walking down the street when the only people with guns are the criminals and gangbangers.

You can't buy a gun to defend yourself with in that city. Not for me.

Actually, you can buy guns here now, which is why the murder rate has shot up the way it has.

 

[imawhosure]

Why Rahm bailed on reelection

My first thought- Good. He's been a terrible mayor overall. He improved the schools, but his management of the Police Department has been horrible.

He probably looked at the Van Dyke trial coming up this week and realized nothing good is going to come out of it for him. Best case, he's convicted and people will ask why Rahm covered for him... worst case, he's acquitted and we have race riots.

...My first thought- Good. He's been a terrible mayor overall...

Chicago has had a great many "terrible" mayors... some ineffective, some dictatorial...

The corruption of the Democratic Party Machine of Chicago and Cook County is legendary; hell, it was legendary back in the 1970s, when the Chicago Sun-Times award-winning reporter Mike Royko eviscerated King Richard I, in a scathing expose...

Chicago has been in a downward spiral since the last wave of the Great Migration in the 1940s-1950s.

Chicago has been controlled by Democrats for eighty-seven (87) years, since Anton Cermak took over in 1931, without any serious challenge to Democratic Party rule.

One crappy mayor has succeeded another, for many years now.

Rahm is just the latest in a long, long line of minority vote panderers and vote whores who give "a little room to destroy" [ Baltimore Mayor, (D) ] to the barbarian hordes on the South and West Sides.

The place is so far gone that it would probably make more sense to move the barbarians on the South and West Sides elsewhere, bulldoze the place down to the ground, and start over, with a different population not engaged in Slaughtering-Your-Neighbors as some sort of block-party game.

That's why they invented Gentrification, but it's a long, drawn-out process spanning decades, to reclaim the City from such riff-raff.

...He improved the schools, but his management of the Police Department has been horrible...

The cops are doing what they need to do; managing the riff-raff on the South and West Sides.

...He probably looked at the Van Dyke trial coming up this week and realized nothing good is going to come out of it for him. Best case, he's convicted and people will ask why Rahm covered for him...

Quite possibly.

...worst case, he's acquitted and we have race riots.

Fine. Let the barbarians riot. Let 'em burn down their own neighborhoods for the hundredth time to no avail. If it gets bad enough, the State will simply throw a Ring-of-Steel (the Illinois National Guard) around their ghettos and keep 'em separate from decent, sane folk until they over-drink and over-dope themselves into another stupor. Great fun.

I was born in Chicago, lived there until 1972, and still live within 25mls of that once great city.

Politics in the city, and bad choices by Washington politicians and Chicago's own politicians with a lot of help from those in Springfield Illinois, have put it on the path to its demise. Oh, it probably won't end up like Detroit, but it won't be far behind it.

The problem with Chicago was it was the city of big shoulders, a blue collar town. It had massive industry throughout the South side, along with others being splattered throughout its civic borders. During the Jimmy Carter collapse, most of the industries left town, leaving virtually nothing for blue collar people to find employment at. All of the mighty steel mills started closing; US Steel, Wisconsin Steel, Bethlehem Steel, which caused the ship yards, train yards, and trucking company's to collapse.

In its heyday; which was not all that long before this collapse, US Steel employed 40,000 people between its South Chicago factory, and its Gary Works facility in the mid 70s; before the good ole Jimmy Carter collapse-( That wasn't including all the rest of the mills, and of course, good old Ford Motor, Chicago Assembly.

Now SOME PEOPLE on here are going to tell you that this was inevitable, and they are partially correct. But why? Well, let me tell you---------->

1. Your federal government decided that it would decide the size and mileage of vehicles, meaning that more plastics and aluminum was used to keep weight down. -1 for steel makers!

2. Because of new technology, rolled steel came into vogue which could be produced at mini mills. It took less people for sure, but the amazing thing was that none of the big steel makers were willing to use their facilities in Chicago to convert. Why?

3. Reason for number 2 was TAXES, yes, that evil word! You see, the city of Chicago under those saintly Democrats thought their city would always be a mecca for industry, so they put in what was known as a head tax. What was a head tax? Well, what it was worked like this---------> for every employee you had on your payroll, you had to send a fixed amount of money to the city, and that didn't count state and city tax. I do not remember if it was monthly, or quarterly, but it was EXPENSIVE!

And so, what happened was------------> all their reinvestment went SOUTH, and the remaining operations went to the Gary Works plant which...…...did NOT have a head tax! (amazing how that works) All the rest of the steel plants just shuddered their doors except for Bethlehem, and woosh, you just lost almost 200,000 jobs from the mills, and their support structure of trucks, ships, and trains. That's correct folks, that is NOT a mis-type. Almost 200,000 jobs were gone within 6 to 7 years. POOF!

Well then, Reagan got elected, and he decided to legislate SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL ZONES in ailing big cities that got special federal, taxbreaks. Chicago had a chance! Instantly, Chicago politicians wanted in, but a funny thing happened...……….Democrats refused to remove the head tax, and that was close to equal to what the federal tax break was for building inside large cities. Now what do you think happened, and I will give 3 guesses, and the 1st 2 do not count-) That's correct, NO big manufacturer even sniffed Chicago, and the city continued to languish in Democratic idiocy.

Well, today the head tax is gone. And how did that happen?

Where I worked, Ford Motor, Chicago Assembly, decided it was going to do a large expansion, and set a plant up for operations for at least 15 years. The 2 choices were us, and Atlanta Assembly plant of Georgia. The bidding was fierce between the 2 states, with the obvious fact that Atlanta had the lead on taxes, but we were a central hub of the country. The governor of Illinois gave tax breaks to Ford, but Ford would NOT commit to Chicago unless the head tax was removed from them, and all their satellite suppliers who would be moving into their supplier campus. The estimate between the plant, suppliers, and support staff, along with insuring the stamping plant would stay in business in Chicago Heights Illinois was 22, 000 jobs to keep, or lose. 18,000 blue collar, 4000 white collar, ALL UNION JOBS besides the white collar.

And that is how the Democrats got to reality, the head tax was gone, and the rest is history, for Ford anyway. But Chicago still suffers mightily. It had to sell its parking meters to a private company for 1 billion dollars before Daley retired to stay in the black. They spent it all in 4 years to make the city appear stronger than it was, and when that money was close to drying up, Daley did not run for re-election, as he knew what it meant.

Chicago has a TERRIBLE school system, terrible. It produces sub standard results throughout most areas. Without blue collar work available, Chicago has become a city of some haves, and a whole lot of have nots. Without a good education, you will struggle to make it in Chicago; and yet they produce students who can not even survive in the city they were born. That is sad, very sad.

So in closing, if you think the USA is in decline because of Democratic/Socialist policies and want to watch what it looks like in real time, watch Chicago. What you are seeing there is what happens when a civil society breaks down because of failure of government. There is no excuse as the city is not Detroit tied to one product that can/could bring it down like autos, but rather because they can not stem the tide of people that have money from leaving, nor entice enough replacement to enter to keep themselves afloat. Oh, they try...……….and I am sure some will chime in to say they got Boeing in there and a few others, but the ones they did all have 2 things in common.

What are those 2 things?

1. BIG TAX BREAKS, (funny how the Democrats know they work, unless a Republican does it) but they sunset at some point in the not to distant future.

2. They are CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS. Why is that significant? Because unlike a manufacturing facility, a headquarters can be picked up and moved in a week, lol. In other words-------->if the huge tax breaks are NOT renewed, it will be, "Adios, cya, wouldn't want to be ya!"

Rahm sucked! But then again, so did the rest of those saintly Democrats who ran that city for the last 60-70 years. But what the hell, they got what they wanted, only the poor people of Chicago have suffered, and what's a little suffering for millions, when you have an ideology to peddle, right!

 

[JoeB131]

Politics in the city, and bad choices by Washington politicians and Chicago's own politicians with a lot of help from those in Springfield Illinois, have put it on the path to its demise. Oh, it probably won't end up like Detroit, but it won't be far behind it.

Whatever, buddy. It's still a great city to live in, certainly better than whatever inbred part of Jesusland you live in.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

I'm sure Chicago won't miss him.

Hell they will just elect another idiot to run the city into the ground.

Why anyone would live in Chicago is beyond me. You can get shot just walking down the street when the only people with guns are the criminals and gangbangers.

You can't buy a gun to defend yourself with in that city. Not for me.

Actually, you can buy guns here now, which is why the murder rate has shot up the way it has.

People are killing each other with legal guns? Who knew?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Actually, you can buy guns here now, which is why the murder rate has shot up the way it has.

Chicago sees drop in killings and shootings for 13 consecutive months - CNN

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Politics in the city, and bad choices by Washington politicians and Chicago's own politicians with a lot of help from those in Springfield Illinois, have put it on the path to its demise. Oh, it probably won't end up like Detroit, but it won't be far behind it.

Whatever, buddy. It's still a great city to live in, certainly better than whatever inbred part of Jesusland you live in.

You couldn't pay me to live there.

 

[OKTexas]

Why Rahm bailed on reelection

My first thought- Good. He's been a terrible mayor overall. He improved the schools, but his management of the Police Department has been horrible.

He probably looked at the Van Dyke trial coming up this week and realized nothing good is going to come out of it for him. Best case, he's convicted and people will ask why Rahm covered for him... worst case, he's acquitted and we have race riots.

The best thing that could happen to chicago is Mrs O'Leary get another cow.

.

 

[JoeB131]

Actually, you can buy guns here now, which is why the murder rate has shot up the way it has.

Chicago sees drop in killings and shootings for 13 consecutive months - CNN

you do realize this is after the number of murders shot way up, it's down this year, right?

The easy access to guns happened after the moronic McDonald and Heller decisions... you know, the ones where Scalia decided that any asshole constitutes a well-regulate militia... .

And look what happened after 2010!

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Actually, you can buy guns here now, which is why the murder rate has shot up the way it has.

Chicago sees drop in killings and shootings for 13 consecutive months - CNN

you do realize this is after the number of murders shot way up, it's down this year, right?

The easy access to guns happened after the moronic McDonald and Heller decisions... you know, the ones where Scalia decided that any asshole constitutes a well-regulate militia... .

And look what happened after 2010!

Of course , it had to be that because people in Chicago could never get guns before. It certainly couldn’t have had anything to do with the Ferguson effect. That only affected the rest of the cities in the country, not Chicago.


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