Bankrupt Chicago negotiating big payout to school union
Another Democratic stronghold collapsing: Despite an $800 million dollar budget deficit, Chicago’s Democratic mayor is likely going to negotiate a big money increase to its striking school union.
I like the article’s title: “Chicago Mayor Learning that Eventually, You Run Out of Other People’s Money.”
The union is demanding an additional $38 million from the city, over and above what its members presently get. And based on the track record of every big-city Democratic mayor for the past half century, I guarantee they are going to get it, even though the city simply doesn’t have the money.
This quote also illustrates another consistent pattern since World War II:
In their eagerness to sate the appetite for tax dollars, public unions’ ever-escalating demands have made Chicago the only major city of the top five to lose population over the previous decade.
People always flee leftist strongholds, whether they be the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, California, New York, or Chicago. And the only way any of these socialist/communist hellholes found they could stop the exodus was to make their territories the equivalent of prisons, surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards.
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Another Democratic stronghold collapsing: Despite an $800 million dollar budget deficit, Chicago’s Democratic mayor is likely going to negotiate a big money increase to its striking school union.
I like the article’s title: “Chicago Mayor Learning that Eventually, You Run Out of Other People’s Money.”
The union is demanding an additional $38 million from the city, over and above what its members presently get. And based on the track record of every big-city Democratic mayor for the past half century, I guarantee they are going to get it, even though the city simply doesn’t have the money.
This quote also illustrates another consistent pattern since World War II:
In their eagerness to sate the appetite for tax dollars, public unions’ ever-escalating demands have made Chicago the only major city of the top five to lose population over the previous decade.
People always flee leftist strongholds, whether they be the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, California, New York, or Chicago. And the only way any of these socialist/communist hellholes found they could stop the exodus was to make their territories the equivalent of prisons, surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Just another mode of Liberal Democrat wealth redistribution and pandering to a voting base where who always pays, pays.
The political operatives who have been empowered by the people, in this case, of Chicago (Not like the people have ever been offered any real choice in the matter) deliver the cash to those who are bound and obligated to incestusly support them. The union is just strong arming the city government, its just business. Business paid for with other peoples money, so its no biggie.
Everything is normal in Chicago. The good people of Chicago are ripped off as dozens of black and minority people are shot EACH WEEK still, and the media is unable to even notice it, report on it and publically shame and demand change. This is the politically correct Progressive agenda, and in time everyone dies as a result of such thinking.
Eddie Johnson, police cheif, Chicago. His comment just the other day:
“The values of president Trump are not the values of the people of Chicago”.
A very correct statment, Trumps values are certainly NOT the values of at least the politically empowered politico parasites of Chicago who allow gangs and thugs to run and own the streets of Chicago killing with great abandon. No, not the same values at all.
The State of New York tried in the early 90’s to tax people who had moved out of the state and taken up residence elsewhere. They wanted to tax the income for the entire year in which the person had moved away. I suppose the instigators of this legislation thought they’d be politically safe, as non-residents couldn’t vote them out of office.
Based on events in Seattle, I’d wager that no small percentage of the people leaving any Progressive stronghold voted those politicians in to office. Curious how those with the money and influence to put Progressives in office are the ones most able to leave when things inevitably go against them, while the poor folks who have been used and exploited in the process are stuck.
Robert wrote: “People always flee leftist strongholds, whether they be the Soviet Union, East Germany, North Korea, California, New York, or Chicago. And the only way any of these socialist/communist hellholes found they could stop the exodus was to make their territories the equivalent of prisons, surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards.”
It is too bad that California, New York, and Chicago don’t have barbed wire and armed guards so that their liberals, who want more without paying for it, don’t come to my beautiful state of California and turn it into a hellhole.
Oh, wait. They are already here, and they spent all the money and are now shutting down the electricity and burning the state to the ground. Now it seems the population is fleeing to other, still beautiful, states — leaving behind literally scorched earth — where they are likely to implement the same stupid policies which will bankrupt those states and burn them to the ground, too.
We need a wall to keep out the liberals.
Californians fired Gray Davis through a recall election largely because he gave away the state’s future treasury to state workers. The liberals in Sacramento will not correct that bankrupting policy, so the future is bleak, here.
Save yourselves! It’s too late for us in California.