Nothing changes until the higher income and virtue signaling folks, who really pay no price for electing these idiots, see real devastation come into their lives. That usually means personal safety is compromised and/or their wealth taking very serious hits. There are ways to get around both of these issues, for now. Trump had it right when he threatened the Ivies with taking away their giant Federal punch bowl. That is the only kind of thing that brings some attention to the game that has been going on for decades.
Can't believe those fools in New York are going to vote for that sexual deviate and murder for mayor, Cumo. It is just like Chicago and any other major city in the country. I read John Kass whenever he writes a new column always the best. He speaks the truth. Our illustrate mayor in Chicago has an approval rating of between 6 and 15 %. He will be like Rahm and wont run for reelection.
I could not agree more. Our large cities are just a mess. It does not have to be this way, but having lived in NYC for 13 years, and frankly still wishing at times I lived there, it has been a self-perpetuating move to the bottom for my old city. It has such potential for true greatness, though there is still greatness happening there it just takes a lot more effort for it to be great. I lived in three of the 4.5 boroughs, hard for me to call Staten Island a borough, and the one I did not live in is a great as well having spent time there with friends. I would go to vote in my time there realizing that vote did not count except with Rudy. Imagine what some of these cities could be like. Seattle in my home state is another that has decided that self implosion via political stupidity is a wise move.
An incompetent blowhard who committed sexual harassment running against a Marxist who supports terrorism and is an anti-semite does not seem to present optimal choices for a mayoral election.
Ironically, the guy who might be the best choice is Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, but for New York to elect a Republican Mayor would be remarkable.
If Cuomo wins the Democratic primary, then he will probably win the election, but if the Marxist bigot wins the Democratic primary, I think it's going to be a very close race and Curtis Sliwa may defeat him. Sliwa does have the endorsement of all five of New York city's Republican County parties, for whatever the heck that's worth.
At first glance, the loss of the Ken Griffin types looks like a body blow to cities like Chicago, NYC, etc., but the real damage is losing the small business and entrepreneur risk-takers who provide products and services and create non-concentrated wealth. When Jeff Carter moves to Nevada, that's an insidious loss to the city because there are thousands like him, whereas there's only a few billionaires who are able to come and go on a whim.
I was born in Chicago, my dad worked for the water department, civil service, for 40 years. I went to elementary and high school in the city, then to UIC and onto a 30+ career at the CBOT and CBOE before leaving there to start an automotive business. Now we have one location in Chicago and 2 in the suburbs, and we're concentrating our growth in the suburban stores, not the city.
My family and I moved to Texas in 2019, we'd had it with Chicago and Illinois and our young adult kids were happy to depart for an environment where things were growing and looking up toward the future, rather than looking to prey on its own citizens for ever more funding for the black hole.
While I will always have a love for the city, Chicago lost our family and more importantly, our kids and all of their future earnings, ideas, energy, and yes, tax payments. This is the unrecoverable part. Millionaires and billionaires are highly mobile. They might return if the city ever gets its act together, but thousands of everyday hardworking people who will start and grow enterprises of 5 to 100 employees will never return. I don't know how a city can recover from those losses, whomever they elect.
Nothing changes until the higher income and virtue signaling folks, who really pay no price for electing these idiots, see real devastation come into their lives. That usually means personal safety is compromised and/or their wealth taking very serious hits. There are ways to get around both of these issues, for now. Trump had it right when he threatened the Ivies with taking away their giant Federal punch bowl. That is the only kind of thing that brings some attention to the game that has been going on for decades.
Can't believe those fools in New York are going to vote for that sexual deviate and murder for mayor, Cumo. It is just like Chicago and any other major city in the country. I read John Kass whenever he writes a new column always the best. He speaks the truth. Our illustrate mayor in Chicago has an approval rating of between 6 and 15 %. He will be like Rahm and wont run for reelection.
I think that he is living in an illusion, and will run. He's Toni's boy, and a tool of the CTU. They don't care about approval. They count the votes.
Send these mayors to are enemy commie countries
I could not agree more. Our large cities are just a mess. It does not have to be this way, but having lived in NYC for 13 years, and frankly still wishing at times I lived there, it has been a self-perpetuating move to the bottom for my old city. It has such potential for true greatness, though there is still greatness happening there it just takes a lot more effort for it to be great. I lived in three of the 4.5 boroughs, hard for me to call Staten Island a borough, and the one I did not live in is a great as well having spent time there with friends. I would go to vote in my time there realizing that vote did not count except with Rudy. Imagine what some of these cities could be like. Seattle in my home state is another that has decided that self implosion via political stupidity is a wise move.
An incompetent blowhard who committed sexual harassment running against a Marxist who supports terrorism and is an anti-semite does not seem to present optimal choices for a mayoral election.
Ironically, the guy who might be the best choice is Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels, but for New York to elect a Republican Mayor would be remarkable.
If Cuomo wins the Democratic primary, then he will probably win the election, but if the Marxist bigot wins the Democratic primary, I think it's going to be a very close race and Curtis Sliwa may defeat him. Sliwa does have the endorsement of all five of New York city's Republican County parties, for whatever the heck that's worth.
One can only hope.
At first glance, the loss of the Ken Griffin types looks like a body blow to cities like Chicago, NYC, etc., but the real damage is losing the small business and entrepreneur risk-takers who provide products and services and create non-concentrated wealth. When Jeff Carter moves to Nevada, that's an insidious loss to the city because there are thousands like him, whereas there's only a few billionaires who are able to come and go on a whim.
I was born in Chicago, my dad worked for the water department, civil service, for 40 years. I went to elementary and high school in the city, then to UIC and onto a 30+ career at the CBOT and CBOE before leaving there to start an automotive business. Now we have one location in Chicago and 2 in the suburbs, and we're concentrating our growth in the suburban stores, not the city.
My family and I moved to Texas in 2019, we'd had it with Chicago and Illinois and our young adult kids were happy to depart for an environment where things were growing and looking up toward the future, rather than looking to prey on its own citizens for ever more funding for the black hole.
While I will always have a love for the city, Chicago lost our family and more importantly, our kids and all of their future earnings, ideas, energy, and yes, tax payments. This is the unrecoverable part. Millionaires and billionaires are highly mobile. They might return if the city ever gets its act together, but thousands of everyday hardworking people who will start and grow enterprises of 5 to 100 employees will never return. I don't know how a city can recover from those losses, whomever they elect.