Change we can believe in?

Chicago and Illinois....

Who Ran it?

Senators: Barack Obama & Dick Durbin
Representative: Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Illinois Governor: Rod Blogojevich (impeached)
Illinois House leader: Mike Madigan
Attorney General: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Chicago Mayor: Richard M. Daley (son of Mayor Richard J. Daley)
The leadership in Illinois? All Democrats.

Body count in Chicago the last six months: 292 killed -- more killed in Chicago than US troops in Iraq in same period.

State pension fund - $44 Billion in debt, worst in the country.

Cook County (Chicago ) sales tax - 10.25% highest in country (Look it up).

Chicago school system - rated one of the worst in the country and Obama just named the Arne Duncan, Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools as his Secretary of Education. Only 17% of 8th graders under his command read at grade level. That means 83% of Chicago aged students are reading below grade level. Over 60% are reading four or more grade levels below.

Illinois democrats cannot blame Republicans because there aren't any there in power !

Obama professes "Change!", i sure hope he does not mean change to how democrats have ruined a state like Illinois, not to mention Michigan, New Jersey, and California (even the Terminator could not save that place, he is handcuffed by the legislature). Funny how all the democrat governors are asking for federal "bail-out" money but generally not republicans. Republicans understand economics, democrats do not, that is the rule-of-thumb and it proves itself true over and over.

Remember, the recession of 2008-2009 was not caused by "failed policies by George Bush", the favorite talking point expression of the democrats, unless you are referring to the inept SEC, there i will agree the Bush gang should have been more involved in cleaning that place out, but that had nothing to do with the recession. The recession was caused by the affordable housing laws (created by democrats awhile back) and the democrat created (and run) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac quasi-government institutions. Remember the CEOs (democrats by the way) who gave themselves huge bonuses while cooking the books? They created the housing bubble that burst that then caused the credit meltdown and all the dominoes after that. You want to blame someone, look in the mirror democrats, this was mostly your fault. Your democrat media outlets do a good job of hiding this fact, but not from those of us who educate ourselves.