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Speak Out allows readers to comment on the issues of the day. Email Speak Out at [email protected] or call 312-222-2427. Please limit comments to 30 seconds or about 100 words and give your first name and your hometown.
So four teenagers were in a car, they were shot. The car was stolen and they’re considered victims. Well if they’re considered victims, what do you consider the guy whose car they stole? Is he also a victim? Who were the criminals in this case? Another carload of thugs.
Kevin, Oak Lawn
Congress just passed an enormous bill one day before Congress break to go home for the holiday. Thousands of pages. It was held until the last minute. No one was given enough time to read it. Democrats and Republicans voted for it without even reading it. It was loaded with a lot of give away money called pork. Just to let you know a grant for $3.6 million was given to build a walking trail name for Michelle Obama. I can hardly wait to find out the rest of the pork. It looks like the Democrats and the Republicans love pigs. God help America.
Don, Chicago Heights
Yes, here’s another one for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. She’s asking Illinois state legislators for $54 million to fund these asylum-seekers. Why hasn’t she asked for that much money to do something about the people that are living underneath in tents and all that during this winter time. But why are we going to bending over backward for illegal aliens? Don’t figure that out. Come on, Lightfoot, get the money for ex-servicemen and everybody else has living on the street.
Ken, Burbank
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Geri, we are all inconvenienced by the village when plowing to keep our streets clear, but they do a good job at keeping them clear. How do you expect the village to know which citizens need help because of disabilities? Maybe you should make a list of disabled neighbors who need help with snow clearing and give it to the village. What you/we get for our property taxes, besides the snow clearing of streets, are to name a few street cleaning, police, fire protection and schools.
Paul, Tinley Park
Anyone who thinks the self serving, egotistical, narcissist Donald Trump had anything to do with world peace when he was in office should revisit his tactics and motivation causing deaths to five Americans by his treasonous insurrection inciting, causing the attempt to overthrow the U.S. Capitol and government on Jan 6. This is the actions and motivation of and by a dictator thinking only of himself, not a peace professing man.
Carl, Orland Park
Tom from Burbank, since Gov. Greg Abbott from Texas is sending the immigrants out of Texas and putting them in harms way, maybe all the states should send Gov. Abbott their criminals and drop them off at his front doorstep. Were there immigrants in your family? Remember, he who lives in a glass house shouldn’t throw stones.
Geri, Tinley Park
Kevin McCarthy is unworthy of a speakership position. He turned his back on his oath of office by not condemning those responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection and not cooperating in bringing the perpetrators to justice. Of course, his reluctance to support any investigation of this colossal attack on our form of government stems from his fear of alienating his lord and master, Donald Trump. Shame on you, McCarthy, for being the wimp that you are.
Mike, Oak Lawn
We all need to question what is presented as fact by our politicians. Lori Lightfoot’s recent commercial stating she grew up in the segregated South is a lie. Lightfoot was born and raised in Massillon, Ohio, which is about as far north as you can get in Ohio and is outside of Cleveland near Lake Erie, not in the South. Massillon was never segregated let alone in 1960 when she was born.
Mary, Orland Park
The numbers are staggering: on New Year’s Day, newspapers reported 723 murders in Chicago in 2022, following the unnerving total of 836 the previous year. People shot in 2022 totaled 3,442, after 2021’s sad total of 4,339. Remember David Brown’s words upon becoming police chief in 2020: Buckle your seat belts, we’re headed to the moon! His goal, he added, was the lowest murders/shootings on record. How is this ineffective, self-deluding man still Chicago’s police chief?
Christine, Evergreen Park
When will ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, stop covering for the president and tell the truth about the Southern border and tell the nation that it is a crisis down there and the government needs to close the border. You need to tell the truth and show some pictures of the terrible conditions these migrants are facing. But that is asking too much from the in-the-tank media. So, keep controlling speech so when communism comes you will be ready.
Jim, Lansing
If Chicago can’t handle under 10,000 migrants, how do you think Texas is doing with hundreds of thousands? Lightfoot can’t handle much of anything including her own brothers and sisters in the failing city, and Pritzker, he must be hiding in Florida. They all need to go. Those two along with Police Superintendent Brown, State’s attorney Kim Foxx and Sen. Dick Durbin. We truly need someone to bring back Chicago, like that’s going to happen when it’s bought and paid for.
Rose, Chicago
Yeah, this is in reaction to Rick of Chicago who writes about Illinois being the most friendly crime state in the country. Illinois is not even in the top 10. As a matter of fact, seven of the top 10 states with the highest crime rates are run by Republicans. But then again, whenever does a MAGA Republican care about simple things like facts.
George, Calumet City
Once again, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump. Joe Biden’s our president, Kamala Harris is our vice president. Alejandro Mayorkas is in charge of Homeland Security on our border. Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is going to retire, is now laughing about what he said about COVID-19. Why don’t you talk about the present administration and all the positive things that they’re doing? Oh, all you worry about is Donald Trump? You know why, because you can’t say a positive thing about your Democratic friends.
Tom, Burbank