One of Chicago's most notorious agencies is the Chicago Housing Authority. In 1996, after decades of dysfunctional management, the federal government temporarily took it over.Public housing was the biggest failure of the New Deal, and the succeeding generation of liberals grabbed a bad idea and made it worse.
This post is stuffed with irony. America's most liberal president since Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama, promotes himself in his perpetual campaign--by letting his fellow South Siders know that his economic stimulus is being used to tear down parts of the CHA's Harold Ickes Homes. Who was Ickes? He was FDR's Interior Secretary.
Oh...if I'm not mistaken, Obama's economic stimulus was supposed to create jobs by building things...bridges, roads and the like. There are no plans regarding what to do with the soon to be vacant land.
Here are some more Obama stimulus "campaign" signs:
South Holland, Illinois' Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Boring suburb gets a "Jokered" Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Hiawatha National Forest's Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Obama's stimulus campaign sign on U.S. 2 in Michigan
Harvey, Michigan's Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
The Keweenaw Peninsula's Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Upper Peninsula of Michigan's Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
The West Side of Chicago's West Side Obama economic stimulus "campaign sign"
Yorkville, Illinois' Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Des Plaines' fourth Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
North Side Chicago's Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Rosemont's fallen Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Des Plaines' third Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Obama's economic stimulus "campaign sign" stains Yosemite National Park
Skokie's third stimulus "campaign sign"
Des Plaines Obama stimulus "campaign" sign falls
Niles, Illinois' Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Lake Forest, Illinois' Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Obama stimulus "campaign sign" on Chicago's Northwest Side
Skokie's second Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Morton Grove, Illinois' Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Des Plaines, Illinois' two Obama stimulus "campaign signs"
Obama stimulus "campaign sign" in downtown Chicago
Park Ridge, Illinois' Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
Illinois "Obama campaign signs" make Sen. Coburn's waste list
Illinois' Obama campaign signs ranks #3 on Hannity's Waste 101 list
Obama's 2012 reelection campaign and stimulus sign in Libertyville
Obama stimulus campaign sign in LaSalle, Illinois
Obama signs, Obama signs, everywhere Obama signs
Lincolnwood's Obama stimulus "campaign sign"
This stimulus project has been brought to you by the perpetual Obama campaign
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Good - these were an eyesore, and dangerous for a neighborhood trying to make a comeback. This area is south of the quickly gentrifying south loop, and kids around here need a save environment to grow up in. One without crackheads walking down the street in the cold of winter aimlessly without a jacket on....and just being a nuisance in general.
ReplyDeleteIt's such a contrast, with campaign signs placed outside demolished sites. But it saves money as such signs don't need to be customized with good design and materials.
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