There’s a farmer’s market on Thursdays in Daley Plaza that I walk through on the way to work, and the Tribune always has a booth where they try to sell me on a subscription. I’m going to print out this editorial and wave it at them the next time.
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Wow, she sounds like a real nasty cooze. Lots of people get high just thinking of “union labor” contracts ripped up, and the now sullen workers working for crappy unlivable wages. This makes a lot of sickies very happy. She masturbates to the thought of deadly, rushing waters “cleaning out” public housing residents too, no doubt!
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Yeah, but a megastorm is not the answer.
I suppose she could also wish for another WWII because it gave Europe the chance to rework so many of its institutions.
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Yes, but those people are the poors - so washing them away wasn’t really that bad. (or, in the words of Barbara Bush, they are “underprivileged anyway.”) I am getting angrier the more I think about this editorial.
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I agree, but what is? If you don’t live in Chicago (full disclosure: I do not, but grew up in a suburb close to O’hare Airport), you cannot fathom how fucked-up the city is. The red-light camera system punishes normal people for driving in a normal manner, except the lights are jiggered to make it more likely to get a $100 ticket for even going at a normal manner. Soon (if not already) automated speed tickets will be written. And the issue of using bonds to pay operating expenses, one of the craziest ideas I have ever heard:
And the parking system was sold to some foreign corporation for pennies on the dollar. The city is now fined for closing streets for any reason. You have a street fair, you have to compensate the parking system nazis for the lost business. This was the last thing that the fucking turd Daley did before retiring.
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Meaner yes…but wouldn’t that lead to fatter unicorns, not leaner ones?
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She’s praising the conversion of city’s public education system into a system of basically unregulated, uncontrolled fundamentalist Christian madrassas and its slashing of services–the former due to Bobby Jindal’s ALEC abetted Brownbeckitis and the latter due to a huge chunk of the city’s tax base having been wiped out.
And it’s always amazing to me how often people who sneer at others lack of understanding of their country’s history seem to have gotten theirs out of movies and “educational” comic books.
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3 years ago, the Chicago teachers union won a huge salary increase. As soon as it happened, Emanuel closed 50 schools and turned them over to charters not part of the CTU contract. Now the CTU will probably be striking again for higher wages. The CTU is directly part of the conversion to charters.
You cannot get blood from a turnip. The CTU should not strike. They should keep the children in mind.
Chicago is NOT sinking like a rock. Although the new governor would love for that to happen so he could get rid of “those people” and start all over again. But THIS time, just with “good people.”
Because that’s what this ignorant gash is actually saying albeit in a veiled way: they got rid of the niggers, enabled White people to buy property and recreate neighborhoods, broke the labor unions to bring in undocumented workers and now all the White people feel good about nawlins again. It’s kinda like a Southern version of Disneyland. By the way,
Dilapidated buildings were torn down and not rebuilt.
FIFY
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Just remember folks, the Chicago Tribune has been the main Chicago organ of the Republican Party going back literally to the mid 1800s.
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FYI - there IS money in Chicago. It’s just going to certain people. And I’m sure that you stay awake at night thinking about the children.
NOT.
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“slashed the… budget, forced unpaid furloughs, cut positions, detonated labor contracts”
Sounds like the business plan Sam Zell used when he took over the Tribune. He turned a good newspaper into one with limp reporting riddled with typos. I dropped my subscription because the price kept going up as the quality went down.
She does have a point that the city (and state) finances are a mess and some drastic changes are needed. But her “solutions” are wrong. And the she’s complaining about Emmanuel who the Tribune endorsed just four months ago.
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Reaching back to the mid 1800s both in terms of publishing history and, based on this editorial, ideological end goal.
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“If you read the piece, it’s about finances and government. I would never diminish the tragedy of thousands of lives lost.”
Except that is exactly what she did.
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Thank you for explaining the situation in Chicago and Illinois in an honest way. If our current governor has his way, there will be no public school (since it conflicts with his buddies’ ability to profit from charter schools), no minimum wage (let the free market rule), no pensions (except golden parachutes for the 1%) and no mental health services (we can’t afford that and it would interfere with for-profit prisons). And, the Chicago Tribune (which has always leaned right) has become a propaganda rag for the ultra conservative view of the US.
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WTF does anyone from Brooklyn know about Chicago, anyway? And what kind of misogynist shit is “ignorant gash”? Is that similar to “moronic twat” or “menstruating slut”?
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Probably as much as you do since you admitted upthread that you no longer live there either.
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Yeah, I don’t live there. But my folks did until 2 years ago, and I go back frequently. How about you? Do you know where the Berghoff Restaurant is? How about where the “El” runs? And what does the “El” mean? From your rural perch in KY, I’m sure you know a bunch. Ever even been to Chicago?
Shorter version: “Let’s kick out a huge portion of our population by killing them or destroying their homes, put in restrictions/curfews that keep them from ever repairing their houses or being able to move back, and then re-invest in our mostly-untouched white areas.”
Sadly, that’s not even a radical idea. We’ve been doing that here for a very, very long time.
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