As we all know, the real issue in this deal is which city is best positioned to bamboozle and bully its citizenry into forking over untold billions to one of the world’s richest companies.
Docile
We like to think we’re so big and bad, but push comes to shove and Chicago rolls over like a little puppy dog when the mayor barks his command.
In the recent debate over giving $5.5 million in TIF funds to Presence Health, for example, the mayor got many of his black City Council allies to guilt-trip their white liberal counterparts who opposed the deal. Somehow they managed to turn a $5.5 million handout for an office in an upscale downtown office building into a crusade against white hypocrisy.
Anyway, in the case of Presence, you had black aldermen playing the race card to help perpetuate a reverse-Robin Hood TIF program that robs from the poor and gives to the rich.
