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If Democrats Can't Run Chicago Can they Run Anything?

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he won’t run for a third term next February.

Should readers from outside Chicagoland care? Yes, because Emanuel’s surprise exit is a sign of the unworkability of policies that will go national if Resistance Democrats oust Donald Trump...
Emanuel sees no way to get the Blue Model* to work in Chicago, and the Blue Model is what Democrats propose for the whole nation.

Chicago and Illinois have been hobbled by metastasizing pension obligations, frozen in place by state courts and state House speaker Michael Madigan. Taxes have been rising: Shoppers on North Michigan Avenue pay the nation’s highest taxes.

And so people are leaving Chicago. Where will they go when the whole nation is ruled by the Blue Model? They will have no choice outside of leaving the country but to accept a lower standard of living.

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*What is the Blue Model? Briefly, generous welfare and government services paid for by high taxes. In Chicago this includes big pensions and salaries for public sector unions, tax money to benefit certain elite and well connected groups of people.
 
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he won’t run for a third term next February.


Emanuel sees no way to get the Blue Model* to work in Chicago, and the Blue Model is what Democrats propose for the whole nation.



And so people are leaving Chicago. Where will they go when the whole nation is ruled by the Blue Model? They will have no choice outside of leaving the country but to accept a lower standard of living.

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*What is the Blue Model? Briefly, generous welfare and government services paid for by high taxes. In Chicago this includes big pensions and salaries for public sector unions, tax money to benefit certain elite and well connected groups of people.



To be fair, neither blue nor red politicians can succeed in governing Chicago.

People have no choice but to leave the city.

Such large migrations from American cities are nothing new.
 
To be fair, neither blue nor red politicians can succeed in governing Chicago.

People have no choice but to leave the city.

Such large migrations from American cities are nothing new.
I have an equally dismal prediction for cities like Chicago, and that is that they'll never stop voting for Democrats who will continue to implement their failed ideologies. There's this generational inculcation that Dems will take care of them, and have their best interests at heart.
Based on results, that's the furthest thing from the truth.

I do wonder what the real reason is for Rahm's exit. Perhaps he sees the Obama clan cashing in out West in Silicon Valley and it's his turn at the trough.
 
Buffalo's no better. "Lord" Byron Brown is the architypical Democrat who's hands have been greased more often than a mechanic's. All this development Downtown and the neighborhoods being neglected. What I find amazing; Nobody likes him, the police and firefighters hate him and he still managed to slither his way into a fourth term.
 
I guess the same thing could be said about Republicans and Michigan or maybe west Virginia.
 
Unfortunately, the fate for Chicago was set a long way back. Too many parts prone to the worst violence in the nation, fiscal promises impacting budgets out decades from now, and horrible mismanagement all along the way.

I’m not entirely convinced a solid Republican control or solid Democrat control for 10 or more years would change anything.
 
Unfortunately, the fate for Chicago was set a long way back. Too many parts prone to the worst violence in the nation, fiscal promises impacting budgets out decades from now, and horrible mismanagement all along the way.

I’m not entirely convinced a solid Republican control or solid Democrat control for 10 or more years would change anything.

True. The change has to be cultural and come from within the communities. But first, they have to recognize that the government-no matter who's in charge-isn't going to save them. Only they can do that.
 
No.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he won’t run for a third term next February.


Emanuel sees no way to get the Blue Model* to work in Chicago, and the Blue Model is what Democrats propose for the whole nation.



And so people are leaving Chicago. Where will they go when the whole nation is ruled by the Blue Model? They will have no choice outside of leaving the country but to accept a lower standard of living.

___________________________________
*What is the Blue Model? Briefly, generous welfare and government services paid for by high taxes. In Chicago this includes big pensions and salaries for public sector unions, tax money to benefit certain elite and well connected groups of people.

Republicans cannot run the White House without making a new scandal every week.
 
Is this the thread where non-Chicagoans pretend that people are fleeing the city in droves and that Democrats are completely responsible for the State of Illinois fiscal issues?

The pension issue is quite real, and a large bulk of it represents GOP reluctance to raise taxes to pay for stuff they’ve already committed to. Yanno- like they have been doing nationally the last couple years.
 
Republicans cannot run the White House without making a new scandal every week.

Good, effective policies are what the people want. Scandals come mainly from the inability of the left to accept the results of a free and fair election, so I and many others tend to discount them.
 
Is this the thread where non-Chicagoans pretend that people are fleeing the city in droves and that Democrats are completely responsible for the State of Illinois fiscal issues?

The pension issue is quite real, and a large bulk of it represents GOP reluctance to raise taxes to pay for stuff they’ve already committed to. Yanno- like they have been doing nationally the last couple years.

Really now. When have Republicans ever had a say in taxes or spending in Chicago? Democrats have run Chicago for a long time. Do they have any responsibility at all for what's going on there?
 
Good, effective policies are what the people want. Scandals come mainly from the inability of the left to accept the results of a free and fair election, so I and many others tend to discount them.

How many guilty verdicts does Trump have with people in his inner circle?
 
To be fair, neither blue nor red politicians can succeed in governing Chicago.

People have no choice but to leave the city.

Such large migrations from American cities are nothing new.

Red policies would work, but no one would be able to implement them, neither left nor right. As is the case in Washington, DC, the entire apparatus of the government with all its faceless and unaccountable bureaucrats would be working against them.

The end game for this mess was revealed in Detroit. It turns out the city council was expecting a bailout from the Federal Government. The plan seems to be to run all the institutions in the US into the ground and have the Feds take them over or else declare that the market economy has failed and implement socialism.
 
How many guilty verdicts does Trump have with people in his inner circle?

None of those verdicts have anything to do with wrong doing by Trump. Those people are just casualties in the war against Trump.
 
Good, effective policies are what the people want. Scandals come mainly from the inability of the left to accept the results of a free and fair election, so I and many others tend to discount them.

Yep Pruitt, cabinet members lying and Trump lying on a daily basis is all the fault of the left. :roll: Do you guys EVER take responsibility for the corruption you have in the White House currently? Nope.

You truly have hit a new LOW. Fitting for your name.
 
No.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he won’t run for a third term next February.


Emanuel sees no way to get the Blue Model* to work in Chicago, and the Blue Model is what Democrats propose for the whole nation.



And so people are leaving Chicago. Where will they go when the whole nation is ruled by the Blue Model? They will have no choice outside of leaving the country but to accept a lower standard of living.

___________________________________
*What is the Blue Model? Briefly, generous welfare and government services paid for by high taxes. In Chicago this includes big pensions and salaries for public sector unions, tax money to benefit certain elite and well connected groups of people.
Dude you’ve more than likely never even been to Chicago.
 
Red policies would work, but no one would be able to implement them, neither left nor right. As is the case in Washington, DC, the entire apparatus of the government with all its faceless and unaccountable bureaucrats would be working against them.

The end game for this mess was revealed in Detroit. It turns out the city council was expecting a bailout from the Federal Government. The plan seems to be to run all the institutions in the US into the ground and have the Feds take them over or else declare that the market economy has failed and implement socialism.

The poorest states are red states....year in and year out
 
Really now. When have Republicans ever had a say in taxes or spending in Chicago? Democrats have run Chicago for a long time. Do they have any responsibility at all for what's going on there?

Chicago isn’t an independent city-state. It’s part of the state of Illinois, and also Cook County. They have limited ability to tax, and tend to have to subsidize the rest of the state - those shiftless , uneducated, meth addled, Jesus loving Republicans on welfare in the rural towns downstate.

Not sure what you think is ‘going on’ here... the city for the most part is thriving, incomes are growing fairly rapidly, it’s an extremely desirable place to live, as evidenced by the boom in construction (there’s about 50 skyscrapers going up right now, including four over 1000 ft tall. Chicago?s high-rise construction boom, mapped - Curbed Chicago ) and raising property values and rents.

True, there are long term pension issues, and gun violence ( gee- maybe less guns IS the answer!) but those are resolving slowly, and the murder rate sure trails many cities in red states, that’s for sure.
 
How many guilty verdicts does Trump have with people in his inner circle?

How many were let off the hook because they really didn't mean to commit the crimes they committed? How many were given the "extremely careless" treatment?
None, I suspect.
 
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