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Originally Posted by moorhosj1
How do you not see that Daley and Rahm laid the foundation for our major problems today (high taxes, underfunded pensions, high crime)? You keep lauding their “pro-business” approach without acknowledging how they kicked the can down the road and gave us today’s financial reality.
Daley sold some of our greatest assets to balance the annual budget and started the concept of skipping pension payments. Rahm continued many of those bad financial practices and left with violence rates higher than when he entered.
They borrowed from today to build that “peak” Chicago. Now we are paying the bill, literally.
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While you have a point, it's not exactly as though Johnson is doing much of anything differently than previous mayors. The only difference is he went full throttle on identity politics and the progressive voters turned out to vote him in because we had a weak pool of candidates.
A true progressive would try to tackle some of these problems once and for all. Kicking the can down the road is the opposite of progressive as it will end up hurting the poor people in the city the most - Reduced public service, reduce police presence, reduce job opportunities, etc. etc.
Our problems could get fixed pretty easily in Chicago, we just choose not to address them because we constantly have just enough wiggle room to let problems slide. This is the same city that reversed the Chicago River over 100 years ago but somehow we can't manage our finances?
Give me a break......
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