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Cook County Board Votes to Boycott the Rule of Law 6/3/2010 9:00:00 AM
By Dan Proft
-Don Wade & Roma Morning Show - WLS 890-AM
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With unemployment in Cook County at 11.3%, businesses boycotting the county because of confiscatory tax and regulatory burdens, and skyrocketing property taxes threatening middle class families with the loss of their homes, what issue do you suspect is on the front-burner for the Cook County Board?
The Arizona immigration law, of course.
Is it any wonder suburban residents talk openly of the desire to secede from Cook County?
Modesty alone should prevent the governing authority of a county as corrupt and mismanaged as Cook from lecturing other states about the rule of law but, to be fair, left-wing symbolism has become Illinois' chief export.
And yet, in classic Cook County fashion, even with a gesture as feckless as their boycott of Arizona, they have to be on both sides of the deal. Some 79 county vendors that hail from Arizona may continue to conduct business with the county in spite of the boycott.
You may be thinking, why does Cook County use so many out-of-state vendors in the first place? Shouldn't the county being using more local businesses that provide local jobs and local tax dollars? If that's what you're thinking, I'm warning you for the last time, that sort of intellectual curiosity is not welcome here.
Maybe you should take your fancy common sense and intolerant legitimate questions to, I don't know, some place like Arizona.
No, seriously, think about it. It's apparently a nice place to live considering Arizona's population has increased seven times faster than Illinois' in the last decade.
But that's probably just because all the racists and racial profilers moved to Arizona.
Except that the Latino population in oppressive Arizona is twice that of progressive Illinois' as a percentage of population (comprising 30% of Arizona residents).
Unlike the Cook County Board, Arizona residents must have actually read the law.
 
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