Originally Posted by
rdtompki
A Chicago clergyman on TV was equating the situation in Chicago to that of a natural disaster (hurricane, earthquake and the like) and felt the level of aide to the inner city should be commensurate. While the blighted neighborhoods do need "help", the circumstances are self-inflicted, not natural, the results of decades of neglect on the part of state and city (mis)management. Chicago has a 70 billion dollar unfunded pension liability. How's that going to work out in the long term? Apparently, if you're at the top of the political heap the status quo works just fine as long as votes keep pouring in at election time.