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Chicago Way w/John Kass: Why the city’s Black community always gets stuck holding the door

Chicago Way w/John Kass (10/02/23): This week, John Kass & Jeff Carlin catch up with former Chicago Alderman Roderick Sawyer (6th – parts of Chatham, Englewood, and West Englewood) to better understand why Chicago is a sanctuary city and how the large influx of migrants/immigrants/refugees to city are creating pressure on scarce resources that residents of the city already have trouble utilizing. Plus, Kasso wonders when the Black community of Chicago will buck years of history and begin voting against the Democrat policies that see them left ‘holding the door for everyone else.’

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  1. John: Even in retirement my time is valuable. I find it too time consuming to spend thirty minutes listening to your podcasts. (I read much faster.) please attempt to have them printed. (The technology is out there.)
    /s/ Jack Winquist

    2. you write that like you’re snapping your fingers at me. an angry man ordering, demanding extra pickeles on his cheesburgers. unlike the cheeseburgers, the podcasts are free. i don’t think treating people like that is the way to their hearts

    4. Jack,

      I agree it is more convenient to read the transcript of podcasts. However, listening to the podcast on my phone helps me complete my doctor-ordered 30 minute walks . Quick and easy is not always the best way in the long run.

    5. “CLOSE THE BORDER!” If our Governor and those stupid aldermen couldn’t see that our sanctuary city status would end up like this they need to find other work. When Biden opened the border and made it world wide known it was obvious. We don’t want these people here. Abolish Sanctuary, honor our federal immigration laws. Bring in INS deport them. I’m tired of hearing about all the “honest hardworking blah blah blah people” seeking asylum. No they aren’t! We are not obligated to feed, clothe, house and educate you illegals!

    1. Love ya John and that is why I subscribe! Raise the price $5 a year and get someone that records the podcast that puts it into words? NOT IMMEDIATELY but when your health is back up and running 100%. We’ll wait.

  5. Here’s another question Kasso. Why do more than half the eligible voters not vote at all? They don’t feel that either party offers them anything. Party politics, incumbency, a corrupt, complicit media, and elected officials and Justice systems that are on the take, on the, on the make, and as venal as the day is long.

    If people felt they were a priority, they’d come out and vote.

    Black pols get sucked in by the power and the money just like Biden did. Biden couldn’t live the life he has if he worked in the private sector. He’s decidedly mediocre and is certainly corrupt.

    Daley bought off the black Alderman, the State reps, the pastors, he had the Hispanic Daley Organization, Hired Truck, etc.

    When your own sell you out, when the justice system will let Sorich take the fall when every old lady who played canasta with Sis Daley had a truck contract with the city, why the hell should they vote?

    You want people to vote for you? Offer them a reason to vote for them. Why do so many old folks vote? There are numerous programs that affect them directly. Why are our oligarchs so involved? They get back multiple dollars for every contribution they make, including most of their philanthropy. See Bill Gates.

    When will you talk about true reform?
    Public financing of campaigns
    Reform ballot access
    Ranked choice voting
    Term limits
    End pensions and lifetime Blue Cross coverage for elected officials
    True transparency of every dollar collected and spent by government
    Strict ethics with draconian penalties for violation.

    The U.S. could balance its budget in ten years if it wanted. Level fund the government for five years. Reallocate the money according to need. Close half the military bases around the world. Eliminate the departments of Commerce, Labor, Education, Homeland Security.

    Lift the cap on the Social Security tax and put a 10% surtax on incomes over 5 million dollars.

    1. Please explain how you think we would benefit, even a little bit, from publicly funded election campaigns. As a way to help us understand your viewpoint, can you please tell us if you’ve ever run for office?

      1. “Please explain how you think we would benefit, even a little bit, from publicly funded election campaigns.”

        Perhaps those running wouldn’t be so beholden to the elites who finance them. That said, it’s a pretty naive hope to think elites wouldn’t find some other way to exert control (‘dark money’ for political ads, mis-information campaigns, etc).

  6. Robert, you might as well wish for the goose with the yellow eggs. The leeches on the public payroll will never do what’s right if it costs them $$. My father always said “you get the politicians you deserve”. I wish I had listened to what my parents said more often. I was the usual know-it-all punk.

  7. Young JK,

    To answer the question of why do more than half the eligible voters not vote at all, one needs to remember more voted for their favorite Chicago pizza than their new Mayor. These people are at best masochists.

    I don’t think we can default and say there are any real issue that kept them from voting for Mayor, Governor, etc., but rather a combination of apathy and malaise in many and a grossly over-sized feeling of self-importance in others.

    The voters in Chicago and Illinois in general highlight the classic symptoms of cognitive dissonance as there is a clear inconsistency between what people believe and how they behave (ie vote).

    Chicago has for decades been channeling Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events and that is why so many of us have left (and will continue to do so) until all that is left is a dystopian, Midwest version of Escape from NY City.

  8. I enjoy listening to the voices of you, Jeff and your guests on these Podcasts.
    Sometimes I don’t listen to them for a week or two, but that’s ok.

    You have been doing a lot lately, John, don’t overdo it.
    Transcribing these podcasts would be too much.
    I’m just glad you are back!

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