YET ANOTHER WEIRDO LIBERAL NUTCASE: A perfect candidate for the democrat Party it its increasing appeal to every perverse and destructive element in our society.
IT ISN'T A WHOLE LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN THIS:
What’s Up With the Democrats In Illinois?
- Posted by Jeff Carter
- on September 21st, 2014
Why all the class warfare? When I was growing up, I never dreamed of living on government assistance. I used to ride my bike and run through Oak Brook and dream of owning one of those houses. I didn’t dream about creating a political machine. I dreamed about creating the next McDonald’s ($MCD).
Many people I know are one issue voters. They vote on abortion, or social issues. I have news for them. When you can’t get a job, and you can’t support your family, no one cares about those issues. Big government only begets high taxes and makes it tougher to support your family. Besides, the right to abortion isn’t going away anytime soon and gay marriage is legal in Illinois. It’s not going away either. But taxpayers continue to move away.
Most of the Republican candidates that are running for state wide office were private business people at some time in their careers. Bruce Rauner was a successful investor. He ran a Venture Capital and Private Equity firm that made hundreds of investments. Jim Oberweis has run a successful money management business, and also has a dairy/ice cream business. Mike Webster is a CPA. Without Tom Cross, gay marriage would not have passed the General Assembly.
Anyone that knows anything about running a business knows you can’t control every single move by every employee, or every single dollar that flows through the business. Being a CEO isn’t being a dictator.
Yesterday, Senator Dick Durbin blasted Oberweis on minimum wage, taxes, corporate inversions and any other capitalist endeavor he could think of. I guess if I was a reporter, I’d ask Durbin, “What private business have you ever run?”
The Senator, bless his heart, has been a career politician. When I mean career, I mean the last time he worked in the private sector was probably mowing lawns as a kid. Our current governor is a career politician. Every Democratic candidate for statewide office is a career politician.
Personally, I don’t agree with Oberweis on all the issues. However, I hate to see the Democratic Party continually demonize Americans that are successful. What? Should we all be failures? Should we only elect career politicians from both parties? In campaign after campaign if a business person has been successful Democrats say they are out of touch. It happens even if they are women.
Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman were both successful business people. They ran for office and were criticized heavily by Democrats. I always thought that both of those women exemplified the “Lean In” ethic that American women are supposed to subscribe to.
Illinois has been run by career politicians from BOTH sides of the aisle for a long time. What’s that gotten the state?
- Huge out of control pension debt. Maybe it’s so far gone pension reform is dead.
- Freakin golden Corruption.
- No economic growth in Illinois while neighboring states are growing.
- High taxes.
- Exemptions for special interests.
- Crony capitalism.
- Gerrymandering from both parties to make sure they hang on to their slice of pie.
- A landscape littered with all kinds of mini governments from agencies to township to county
- A state where it’s extremely tough to start and sustain a small business
Illinois has turned from a government for the people by the people to a government that is for the politicians by the politicians.
Bruce Rauner has said he is going to change that. He wants term limits. By the way, the Democrats sued to get that issue off the ballot. He wants to cut taxes, and decrease government spending. He will solve the pension crisis. Oberweis understands how to run a business. He understands that the American tax policy has set up a bunch of perverse incentives for American corporations.
If we are going to fix Illinois and Washington DC, we won’t be doing it with career politicians from either side of the aisle. Businessmen founded and built the United States. Businessmen will restore it.
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