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Originally Posted by JUREK
Kahuna you are right again. I still live about 40 miles from Chicago. When I smell the stench from Politics I can't tell if it's coming from Crook County Illinois or Lake County Indiana I can't believe the nepotism shown in politics. The Chicago TV stations are playing up the Jesse Jackson JR. candidate #5 big time. It is a shame but the crooks are for sure on both sides of the aisle.
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Getting "in" via nepotism or payoff is one thing (and not good!), BUT the appointed ones and those with "purchase power" would not have Round-One if the slobs with the appointment power didn't keep getting re-elected. For that, the voter is the dummy.
When you keep re-hiring crooks and scum, the system is bound to eventually get more crooked and scummier.
When I think of the cost to the taxpayer for this miserable mess - Chicago is only one place of many with this fault - through sweetheart contracting, "indirect costs" which include well-disguised payola, and flat-out bribery, those filled-in potholes that everyone is so proud of costs about $1,000 per cubic inch of filler.
Local political machines got the feds beat hands-down when it comes to stealing from the taxpayer.