Comments on: When Quinn the Governor gets here

By: CGHill

CGHill — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:25:12 +0000

Shoulda been here in the Seventies, when evacuees from the country formerly known as South Vietnam landed right here on 23rd Street and remade an ignored section of town into something actually sort of vital.

People do vote with their feet, sometimes with aerial assist. I don’t expect any mass exodus from Illinois, but I figure if they wind up here, that’s fine.

(I did my own version of Tom Joad in 1988. I was back here before too awfully long.)

By: Freakin Okies

Freakin Okies — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:55:00 +0000

“Let’s hope they choose someplace besides Oklahoma.”

What? Okies didn’t have any problem choosing to move elsewhere during the dust bowl. You were a bunch of poor dirt farmers relocating en masse to Cali, and then you all did it again in the 60′s to collect California welfare with your dirty mattresses tied to the roofs of your jalopies. I remember HORDES of dilapitated cars crammed full of clothes and dirty faced children with Oklahoma plates streaming into California.

By: SurvivalBlog

SurvivalBlog — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:27:56 +0000

Economics and Investing…

Do you recall my prediction of higher taxes–perhaps in some desperate and creative ways–to make up for state budget shortfalls?…

By: Montie

Montie — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:38:37 +0000

…And if indeed they want to move, let’s just hope they choose someplace besides Oklahoma.

By: Jeff Brokaw

Jeff Brokaw — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:57:56 +0000

There are no words to describe how annoyed I am by this whole situation in Illinois government today. Oh, wait ... yes there are.

By: View From The Porch

View From The Porch — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:26:27 +0000

QotD: “Wish I’d Said That” Edition….

I haven’t heard one that good since “Electile Dysfunction”…