Draw Your Own Conclusions

What do the top ten cities with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;
Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954;
Cincinnati, OH (3rd)...since 1984;
Cleveland, OH (4th)...since 1989;
Miami, FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;
St. Louis, MO (6th)....since 1949;
El Paso, TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;
Milwaukee, WI (8th)...since 1908;
Philadelphia, PA (9th)...since 1952;
Newark, NJ (10th)...since 1907.

It is the 'disadvantaged' American demographic that habitually elects Democrats - a statement of fact. Yet after multiple generations of wealth redistribution in exchange for the votes of the 'disadvantaged', the same demographics are still disadvantaged, for a multitude of reasons, and arguably worse off that ever. Albert Einstein once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

What will it take to redirect the disfunctional culture in these cities and states? How long would it take? Can it even be done? By whom? Or, instead of insanity, are we witnessing a very rational cultural decision, i.e., taking more and more for doing less and less - not unlike many congressmen?

If that were not enough, the body count (last six months): 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago, 221 deaths in Iraq.

Sens. Barack Obama & Dick Durbin, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Gov. Rod Blogojevich, House leader Mike Madigan, Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan, Mayor Richard Daley ... the leadership in Illinois ... all Democrats. Thank you for a city more dangerous than a combat zone! Of course they're all blaming each other. They can't blame Republicans, because there aren't any!

The Illinois State pension fund is $44 Billion in debt, worst in the country. Cook County (Chicago) sales tax (10.25%) is highest in country. The Chicago school system is one of the worst in country. Look it up if you want to. This is the political culture that Barack Obama comes from in Illinois, and he's the ‘One’ that’s going to 'fix' Washington politics?

Posted September 16, 2008 08:45 PM
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