I need some help with my math.

I need some help with my math.

I grew up in Illinois, South of Interstate 80 and my math is different than Daley & Stroger math.

Here is what I saw as a youth. A small county with just a handful of manufacturing and run-of-the mill businesses and a very good school system. The County had 1 Com Ed Electric Generating Station and 1 large manufacturing operation, 6 mid-size manufacturing and a 8 or so small manufactures. Other than that it had the businesses necessary for the people in the community to sustain day-to-day life.

So I always figured Chicago would have had the state-of-art classrooms and educational programs. But now that I have seen what Chicago has, via all the news media, and dealing indirectly with products of that system I just want to know what is going on.

What is going on with the tax money? WIth all the people, manufacturing, businesses that are State wide, Country wide and Global in Chicago not to mention square footage taxes why are Chicago schools in the condition they are?

What happened to the Illinois Lottery Money? I am old enough to remember that the Lottery was sold to the Illinois Citizens as the miracle that would take away educational school tax burdens.

What happened to the Casino money? The casinos were sold to Illinois as the ‘real’ miracle to end school tax burdens.

Where are the elected officials? Other than just crying and doing nothing.

Mayor Daley has done very well getting the poor people to move out of Chicago. The projects are all but gone and the people there were/are scattered across the county and collar counties. Mayor Daley is doing very good at getting rid of the welfare state in Chicago. He has made it so the poor see that there is no future in Chicago, the schools will not benefit their children and hopefully they would go look for the American Dream elsewhere. Sorry Mayor Daley that is just how I see it.

And Tod Stroger likes what he has seen the mayor do.

Has anyone noticed that Chicago is catering to the elite? And if he gets the Olympics ..... displacement will be back on track.

And those sold on ‘the Democrats are for us the poor and working’ need to really look at what supports this system. And the Republicans need to take note and understand that they need to act on behalf of the poor and expose the lip-service that is the status quo.