Chicago’s ‘Potemkin village’ efforts to change

By Thomas Lifson  September 10, 2017

If you care about the future of America, pay attention to what is happening in Chicago. Civil order, the confidence that one can go about daily life without human predators attacking at the first opportunity, is slipping away, as police find themselves unable to interdict gang activities, and in effect let them shoot each other, along with the occasional innocent bystander, often a young child.

The anarchy zone is spreading out of the gang strongholds and into neighborhoods formerly regarded as safe. Then there is the fiscal black hole represented by pension obligations that have grown to the point where they leave little tax revenue for actual services by actual city employees who have not yet retired. Taxes have skyrocketed, and will only go up – multiplying – if those obligations are to be honored. These factors are well known to our readership, if not a top-of-mind concern of mainstream media. They are forcing businesses and residents out of Chicago, as the city shrinks in population and economic activity............Read more

My Take - Chicago is doomed because the people in charge are radicals being elected by radicals - greedy, envious and violent destructive radicals known as leftists, progressives, liberals - or in this case - Democrats. 

We need to understand one thing. The left is magnificent at criticizing the shortcomings of others and proclaiming they can fix everything.  The reality is that's the only thing they're good at because when they take charge disaster eventually follows.  Because their solutions exist to steal money from the productive - called taxes - and give it to the non-productive. And eventually they  run out of other people's money. 

And they're not going to do anything to upset the radicals who elect them especially the teacher's unions. And the "shared scarifice" these leftist loons talk about is for the taxpayers to share the sacrifice - not the teachers.