Our military personnel have an expression of “cluster f*ck”. I once asked my two Navy children what it meant as I had never heard of it. They told me, “Dad, it means multiple system failures all at once.” That is a pretty good way to explain what the state of the State of Illinois is right now thanks to Democrat leadership. Matter of fact, Illinois has voted Democratic in the last eight elections and in 2020, Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by 17%. Chicagoland largely votes blue while the whole rest of the state votes red.
But that could be about to change. The first indication of a crack in the Democrat’s political dominance is when Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) was replaced by Brandon Johnson (D). While both mayors were/are black, the black and Hispanic communities of Chicago have felt betrayed and sold out by Illinois Democrats over the issue of our open border immigration of the last 4 years.
Several years ago I wrote for another conservative online journal. I wrote an article titled, “Death Spiral States Where Takers Outnumber Makers”. That article gained me national acclaim as I made the connection that the “death spiral states” identified 20 years ago are now all blue states basically bankrupt today.
Both the very wealthy and corporate America leaves these states for “greener pastures” and this is happening in Illinois right now.
“Streaming with Brad: Wealthy residents leaving Illinois” – CBS Chicago
Illinois is now the third biggest loser after California and New York when it comes to people leaving the state. All three are identified as very liberal “blue states”.
Another issue leading to the collapse of Illinois is state taxes. There is a good reason why the expression “tax and spend Democrats” came about years ago. According to some reports, Illinois has the highest and most taxes in the nation. Effective July 1st Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) signed in almost 50 bills which will raise Illinois taxes over a billion dollars in new revenue for the state.
“ESCAPE FROM ILLINOIS! MASSIVE STATE TAX HIKE COMING!” – Michael Bordenaro
Not coincidently to the content of this video mentioning corporate income tax is going to double in 2026, Illinois-based (and founded) John Deere mentioned it is laying off employees to move their jobs to Mexico to add to this “doom loop”.
“More than 600 employees being laid off from John Deere” – WQAD News 8
So after jobs are lost and makers are forced to become takers sucking on the tit of government handout programs (thanks to socialists in government), the next thing to take a hit is the retail industry and YouTube content provider Michael Bordenaro did a great job of covering this aspect of this, thrice.
“INSIDE THE RETAIL APOCALYPSE! ABANDONED STORE CRISIS!” – Michael Bordenaro
The Cherry Valley mall is my local mall where I can shop. If you think the problem of that mall failing is anybody’s fault but Joe Biden and the Democrats, a news report of September of 2021 reported the mall was operating at full capacity in May of 2021! The mall had been closed for 3 months during the Covid pandemic.
“New stores welcome crowds back to CherryVale Mall” – Rockford Register Star
Walgreens, like John Deere, is another company founded (Dixon) and based (Deerfield) in Illinois.
“Walgreens ISSUES STARK WARNING TO U.S ECONOMY!” – Michael Bordenaro
McDonald’s is another company founded (Des Plaines) and based (Oak Brook) in Illinois. While the first McDonald’s restaurant was founded in California, Ray Kroc came along and blew it up into a franchise corporation starting in Des Plaines as Store #1 in April of 1955.
“Say GOODBYE TO FAST FOOD! and BEWARE OF FAKE JOB POSTINGS!” – Michael Bordenaro
CONCLUSION:
Joe Biden has falsely and failingly tried to promote a narrative that the economy was faltering when he took office from former President Donald Trump in 2021. THAT IS AN OUTRIGHT LIE!
Then he, or somebody in his cabinet, came up with this term of “Bidenomics”. On multiple occasions Joe explained it as “growing the economy from the middle out”. The White House website offers this in the way of an explanation:
“It’s an economic vision centered around three key pillars: Making smart public investments in America. Empowering and educating workers to grow the middle class. Promoting competition to lower costs and help entrepreneurs and small businesses thrive.”
My translation:
This vision must have come after hits off of Hunter Biden’s crack pipe.
The largest BAD investment the Biden administration appears to have made with OUR taxpayer dollars is in green energy. The electric auto industry is tanking as more foreign dollars are now going overseas to buy crude oil back for processing in the United States. This is complete indefensible nonsense!
Illegally and unconstitutionally trying to pay off college loan debts of those who work for our politicians in D.C. to grow the bureaucracy of takers, not create makers is more nonsense. Did you know most of our doctors and engineers (makers) are now imported to America?
Adding Federal regulations and taxes does not “help entrepreneurs and small businesses thrive”! If we use the Trump Organization as an example… (I just burned Joe Biden!)
I used to call Joe Biden a liar but recently I have become more crude calling him what he is, a consummate bullsh*t artist! Before you think I am being too crass… think about Bidenomics today and compare it to Biden’s “natural law” during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing of 28 years ago.
“Joe Biden’s Questioning of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas 28 Years Ago” – Valuetainment
Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) is a billionaire of the Hyatt Hotel chain. Because of his failed leadership of Illinois, and White House ambitions, we no longer stay at Hyatt hotels. He demonstrated himself as a fascist tyrant during the COVID-19 pandemic and his motivations seem to be more about personal gain and ego rather than servant patriotism.
Copyright © 2024 by Mark S. Schwendau
