Thursday, December 11, 2008

Illinois =

no, no...this is not about the IL governor.
Obammy wants to "change the country."
"Stop poverty."
"Redistribute the wealth."
Does anyone else see a problem with this?
"If you've ever flown into Chicago, you've seen Bensenville. A village to the south of O'Hare Airport, it was part of Chicago's post-World War II growth boom, providing a multitude of manufacturing and warehousing jobs to the country's first wave of suburbanites. As late as 2000, times were pretty good. Poverty was a minuscule 6.5%, incomes were growing and folks were relocating to Bensenville from outside the state at a steady rate. But Bensenville's fortunes have since changed. Incomes have dropped by 11.4% (without accounting for inflation), poverty has more than doubled and domestic in-migration has ground to a halt. "Much of the low-level manufacturing work has gone overseas, or the jobs have shifted to the outer edges of the metro area," says Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. "What's happening is, you have industrial jobs replaced by service jobs."
Because you sure can't be poor or unemployed to live here:
Or, as history shows... Here:
(though you can sure as hell vote without a residence!!)

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