It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: John Florida on April 27, 2011, 08:32:56 PM
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H/T Bonz
As we leave Illinois for good, I wanted to say goodbye to my friends and wish all of you well. I am a lifelong son of the heartland and proud of it. After 60 years, I leave Illinois with a heavy heart. BUT enough is enough! The leaders of Illinois refuse to see we can't continue going in the direction we are and expect people who have options to stay here. I remember when Illinois had 25 congressmen. In 2012 we will have 18. Compared to the rest of the country we have lost 1/3rd of our population. Don't blame the weather, because I love 4 seasons.
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/publius-forum/2011/03/former-state-senator-quits-illinois-moves-to-texas.html (http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/publius-forum/2011/03/former-state-senator-quits-illinois-moves-to-texas.html)
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Chicago! Chicago!
Illinois just sold still more bonds and our credit rating is so bad we pay higher interest rates than junk bonds! Junk Bonds! Illinois is ranked 50th for fiscal policy; 47th in job creation; 1st in unfunded pension liabilities; 2nd largest budget deficit; 1st in failing schools; 1st in bonded indebtedness; highest sales tax in the nation; most judges indicted (Operations Greylord and Gambat); and 5 of our last 9 elected governors have been indicted. That is more than the other 49 states added together! Then add 32 Chicago Aldermen and (according to the Chicago Tribune) over 1000 state and municipal employees indicted. The corruption tax is a real cost of doing business. We are the butt of jokes for stand up comics.
We live in the most corrupt big city, in the most corrupt big county in the most corrupt state in America. I am sick and tired of subsidizing crooks. A day rarely passes without an article about the corruption and incompetence. Chicago even got caught rigging the tests to hire police and fire! Our Crook County CORPORATE property tax system is intentionally corrupt. The Democrat State Chairman who is also the Speaker of the Illinois House and the most senior alderman in Chicago each make well over a million dollars a year putting the fix in for their client's tax assessments.
They left has never slept
Chicago (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEFsBF1X1ow#)
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As a chile (Yute) living in North Carolina during the Dem. National Convention in '68, I never could understand why all those young people went to Chicago to get beat up by the Democrat Police force. As I grew older, I figured out that the men thought they could easily score with all of those free love hippie chicks . . .
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You are more right than you know BigAl! I knew a college professor who in the late 60's/early 70's while he was going to school at Madison said he joined a coven. A coven?! He said yeah, it was a great place to meet chicks!
::)
Guys did...will do...some crazy sh*t just to score with the ladies!
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You are more right than you know BigAl! I knew a college professor who in the late 60's/early 70's while he was going to school at Madison said he joined a coven. A coven?! He said yeah, it was a great place to meet chicks!
::)
Guys did...will do...some crazy sh*t just to score with the ladies!
I took a knitting class in high school.It worked well enough that a few of my guy friends joined asap.
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You are more right than you know BigAl! I knew a college professor who in the late 60's/early 70's while he was going to school at Madison said he joined a coven. A coven?! He said yeah, it was a great place to meet chicks!
::)
Guys did...will do...some crazy sh*t just to score with the ladies!
I took a knitting class in high school.It worked well enough that a few of my guy friends joined asap.
I was in junior choir. ;D
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I didn't pick up chicks...chicks picked up me. ::speechless:: ::mooning::
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Play in a cool band and you don't have to go where the ladies are. They come to you.
::cool:: ::whoohoo:: ::unknowncomic::
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OK, two babe magnets...
...some of us just have to work harder at it I guess...
:P
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OK, two babe magnets...
...some of us just have to work harder at it I guess...
:P
Oh Lord, it's hard to be humble...... ::guitar::
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Just take cooking instead of woodworking. I'm selfish I just let the other guys make fun. I learned to cook and I still am friends with a few of those girls. ;D
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OK, two babe magnets...
...some of us just have to work harder at it I guess...
:P
I see it as a quality over quantity issue and quality never goes out of style.
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Congrats JF! You aren't the only one:
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/03/29/voting_with_their_feet/page/full/ (http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/03/29/voting_with_their_feet/page/full/)
"Whites are also fleeing the big northeastern liberal, welfare states like Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as the same kinds of states in the midwest, such as Michigan, Ohio and Illinois"
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If more people could afford it they would get out too. But for some as long as the government pays they stay.