Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "Nick Johnson" channel.

  1. Actually the problem started in the mid to late 60's when trying to socialy engineer an end to poverty and the ills of the ghettos, the Federal Government and civic activitsts tried to move ghetto dwellers out into better environments thinking that their environment caused the social ills. The Government took over unfinished houses in projects where the contractors were failing and Government loans were involved, selling them at below the market values of the home s arealdy owned in the projects. These sales were made to people without conc e rn to their ability to pay. The civic activists provided the first years costs. The end result people would move in for a year and then be unable to pay the mortgage and be replaced by a new family. The families didn't change and there were few jobs in the immediate areas since the people living their weren't employed in the area and were commuters. What did change was the crime rates which rose drastically. Areas that had experience little crime found major crimes occurring. Harvey and Markham were examples of this ill-advised plan. Instead of integration, the crime drove the original home owners out. They lost money as no one wanted to pay more for the existing homes ewhen the Government controlled ones cost less for the same house. As to crime, my parents left after at least to rapes (one an 80 year old woman) and the bodies of two foster care children were found buries in the crawl space of one these new families (they were still receiving money for them until someone figured out they were gone). The reason for the move was that I had two sisters (1 in grade school and 1 in high school), I was in college. They lost money on the deal which took them some time to recover from. Markham and Harvey today are both much changed, with high welfare and crime rates. They weren't the only suburbs destroyed this way, but two that I am familiar with. As I have said, moving people to effect change doesn't work, they take their behavior and beliefs with them; just as a person infected with a deadly bacteria or virus takes the disease with them when they flee the source of their infection.
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  2.  @freddycmusic  Blame the Democrat Party, after Dailey the Elder died the next two mayors were worse. Dailey the Younger actually was a little better. Straight down hill sense. To make it clear Dailey the Elder knew a dead goose couldn't lay golden eggs, Dailey the Younger was just as much a crook but the goose had already been killed so he just dined on the carcass. Since then, they have been making soup out of the gooses bones and feathers.
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  3.  @freddycmusic  In my opinion the Dailey machine is dead; if you mean the current version of the Democrat Party machine your dead right. The true Dailey Party machine knewthe city had to be healthy and didn't play social engineer as much as the current ideologues running the current version. By the way, the machine existed before very Dailey in another form, I should know my granduncle was neck deep in it. Why I don't trust the Democrat Party, I know how it was, is and will be run, the only difference is who is at the controls.
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  4. Madigan, 28 plus years in the Illinois House, much of it as leader. His daughter became the State Attorney General. No chance for illegal activities when the guard dog is kin to the w olf.
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  5. Until they tried to social engineer the housing and crime in the 60s when the Feds tried to move unemployed out of the projects; Harvey had closer to 30,000 people, an excellent mall and was widely middle class. As the social engineering failed, when crime increased and the people who moved from city projects brought the worst elements of their culture with them rather than adopt changes. The mall closed after murders in the parking areas, at least one rape and shop lifting that drove businesses out. Now we seem he'll bent on repeating this type of mistake on an even wider basis.
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  6. H a rvey used to be a nice city, but the first attempt to move the poor out of Chicago to break the poverty cycle; but only exported poverty and crime. Dixie mall was a great a place that was abandoned after shoplifting ruined the stores and crimes including murder in the parking lots around the mall exploded. Yes, Victoria social engineering only destroys what is good without fixing what is bad. Compare this to the idea of a community with a plague sending the infected out to spread the disease.
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  7. Several places he named aren't in Chicago, for example Harvey is a separate city, the same as Ford Heights. So is this about Cook County, rather than Chicago. These are both the reason that the Democrats run the state and pass more and more liberal dream actions.
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  8. When were you here? Flash mobs have even damaged tourist areas now; and while downtown is usually safe, but even there can have issues. Tough love is needed not excuses.
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  9. One of the things that I truly love about Liberals and leftists is their ability to forget their failed policies and blame others for the results. Once upon a time mentally challenged or disturbed were placed in facilities. The ACLU sued to end that "incarceration" and eventually the facilities were closed and the people put on the street. Now, they can be hospitalized for short periods and when stabilized r e leased to the streets to become unstable again. Drug use was once criminal and users arrested and locked up. In good states, they received treatment; however most returned to drugs when released. Now progressives want us to consider it non-criminal, ignoring the crimes committed to pay for the habit. They also ignore t he fact that drug use can feed mental issues. These same people than blame the public as being uncaring. True liberal and leftist logic, make a mess and blame your opponent.
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  10. of. One should support a Federal bailout for this state. The last tax increase was to pay down the pension shortages; however, the money went to new projects and graft. What really gets me is the claims that the pensions caused the problem. The reality is the state legislature using the money paid into the fund as a cash cow, borrowing money paid into the fund by employees and replacing it with IOUs which generate no interest and never paid back. Add to this the matching funds are never paid in either. Of course, the politicians encourage taxpayers to blame the teachers and government employees unions hiding what the state legislators have done. The last governor was blamed for all economic problems, but since he was a Republican and the Democrats had veto proof majorities in both state houses, so none of his programs were approved and his vetoes were useless; of course Pritzker and the Dems blamed him for everything but has changed nothing since he took office.
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  11. They replaced Lightfoot with worse. Dems and Progressives keep pushing liberal BS, including blaming Red Lining for the fact the lack of security keeps business out. Property values drop as safety decreases. The activists push unreal solutions based on utopian dreams. The Dems have been running most of Cook County, the suburban cities and town, and Chicago itself. Instead of providing safety, they provide government programs that don't change individual behavior. Remember Rome paying off barbarians only encouraged more demands or the Saxons paying Danegeld and giving up part of England to the Danes (finally stopping that policy and ruling not paying).
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