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Botany

(70,501 posts)
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 06:33 PM Jan 2013

My right wing friend's email

Wow, is Illinois and Chicago great or what?
Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago?
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago.
Only 221 killed in Iraq AND Chicago has the strictest “gun laws” in the entire US.
President: Barack Hussein Obama
Illinois State Senator: Dick Durbin
Illinois House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr.
Illinois Governor: Pat Quinn
State of Illinois House leader: Mike Madigan
State of Illinois Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
City of Chicago Mayor: Rahm Emanuel
The Leadership in Illinois - all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago.
Of course, they're all blaming each other.
Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!

Chicago school system rated Number 1 of the worst in the country.
Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!

State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in country.
Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!

Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country.
Can't blame Republicans; there aren't any!

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois.
And he is going to 'fix' Washington politics for us???

George Ryan is no longer Governor, he is in the big house.
Of course he was replaced by Rob Blagojevich who is...that's right, also in the big house.
And Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned a couple of weeks ago. That is because he is fighting being sent to...that's right, the big house.

The Land of Lincoln, where our former Governors make our license plates!
But you know what?
As long as they keep providing entitlements to the population of Chicago, nothing is going to change, except the state will go broke before the country does.
You just gotta love Illinois

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shenmue

(38,506 posts)
1. Delete it and block them
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 07:00 PM
Jan 2013

Don't count people like this among your friends. This shit is not funny and they know it. That's why they do it.

Botany

(70,501 posts)
4. They take just a single corn kernel's worth of facts and make a whole silo's worth ....
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 07:10 PM
Jan 2013

... of bull shit out of it. The man just forwarded this email on to me and I will
always consider him a friend no matter what kind of crazy stuff he believes.

 

RomneyLies

(3,333 posts)
3. There are precisely ZERO former Ilinois governors in Illinois prisons
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 07:09 PM
Jan 2013

They're all in federal prisons.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
6. SORRY, Red States have the HIGHEST gun deaths:
Mon Jan 14, 2013, 07:17 PM
Jan 2013
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2011/01/10/deadliest-gun-states.html#slide1

Mississippi leads the way, btw Miss. is the MOST CONSERVATIVE state in the Nation AND the POOREST state in the Nation. The two are NOT mutually exclusive.
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