Political comedy about the last true large city (Lake County Democratic Party) political machine that exists in the Country. Northwest Indiana is filled with tribal politics of the most mundane and unethical type with a group of people that as a collection have the least talent for anything: leadership, economic development, delivery of public service, etc. Their only talent seems to be the theft and misuse of funds and developing the best set of rationalization for why they are not responsible.
This blog is dedicated to addressing these individual politicians and the escapades into the so called arena of public policy in NWI. (All opinions are my own and are in no way connected to Purdue University.)
Today I actually get to vote against all those politicians, sorry educators, making free money off of us taxpayers. It is a never ending cycle. When more money is needed, we will tax. Does anyone know of anything different to do? I do not see it.
The best paying scam these days is tax payer money for education. It does not achieve its goals and had not for 40 years; but who is going to speak against it. Look at how many people have their PhD. in education. Are they not ashamed? No? I am for them. They are such failures There has probably been none like this in the history of humanity.
It is because of this that I will be voting "NO" and hope that everyone in Munster, East Chicago, and Lake Station join me.
Much to the chagrin of the Democrat party in NWI, no businesses, with a few exceptions that do not matter, do not want to have anything to do with Lake County or NWI. The why should not surprise anyone. First read the following column:
With so much "economic" advantage to moving to NWI why is no one willing to do it? There are two reasons. One the work force is generally worthless compared to the rest of Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, or the rest of the Country. Why bother with NWI? Especially when unions are working so hard to make people in NWI believe that they are really qualified at anything. That is one of the big jokes that the citizens really believe. Maybe they think they are qualified because they graduated from Hammond High School? Hell, even Tom McDermott does not believe that.
The second reason that companies do not move to NWI is that the Democrats are as corrupt if not more so than they are in Chicago. So why move here? The U.S. Attorneys are always arresting a Democrat for stealing in a pay to play scheme. Beside the arrest they know of hundreds more, they just do not have the corroborative evidence. The Democrat party are the crooks and charlatans. When and if we ever get some competition, i.e. a real Republican party, then maybe things will be different.
Insanity is defined when one uses the same activity over and over and expects different results. That is what all the insane people have utilized with this Airport. I sincerely believe that its major value is as an extended farm, ranch, or fish-pond.
Another airline is leaving. How many is that now? There is not any known individual who will speak the truth that there is not any future for the Gary airport. Its only value is the continued sinking of public funds into the system and this money coming back out in other people's pockets. It is called corruption. Why do you think the man behind Peotone airport is now going to jail with his wife? Anyone really thing Gary is any different?
How many people have to take money out of your pocket before you see the light? Gary's Mayor has turned out to be as corrupt as all the other mayors. She is even worse because she has Tom McDermott as the head of her party helping her in the corruption process.
I have watched all of these "so called honest people" reach for the brass ring to make something out of the Aiport and Gary -- both are lost completely. Then I realized that the brass-ring served to line so many people pockets; no one cared if it ultimately workded or not as long as they made money.
That isw the politics of Lake County and it current head is the McDermott corrupt family.
When you read this all that a civilized, reasoned person can do is cry. One can only cry because the incompetency of the McDermott clan is so obvious or, alternatively, it is not incompetency -- just too busy stealing, which is the norm for Democrat (are there any Republicans?) politicians in Lake County. What is clear is that there is nothing, absolutely nothing, being done to improve Hammond or Lake County economically.
(By the way, I am aware there are exceptions. But the Democrat exceptions are so rare that in fact they have minimal, if any, consequances for Lake County.
McDermott mentions two, and only two, projects for development in Hammond, The Dowling athletics fields in conjunction with Purdue University Calumet (PUC) and the possible move by a railroad company's logistical operation to Hammond. The PUC project is at least two years old and was promoted already as a success under McDermott's lacky former Chancellor Howard Cohen. What is the new reality? The other project is just a big possible -- if -- that was already embellished in 2011. Even if it were to come to life it will only consist of 70 jobs in a county that had the least new job growth in Indiana.
The piece was filled with the free travel and partying that McDermott is doing in Indianapolis. Why? Who knows? These, under McDermott and his lackys, have never ever imporved Lake County's business and economic climate.
By the way, McDermott makes between $140,000 -180,000 in his "various" political positions and contractor paybacks. Is it worth it to you?
The local Democrat front, known as The Hammond Times, has, again, endorsed the worst possible candidate in the race for the State Legislature. In the following column in the newspaper Doug Ross shows his unique inability to actually think anything that is not provided to him by Hammond Mayor McDermott, also know as Chair of the Lake County Democrat Party. See the following from The Hammond Times: House District 12.
Reardon does not got that much of a supportive endorsement from The Times? Why, because this was necessary to keep Daddy McDermott happy. Reardon has been the worst State Representative NWI and in particular Lake County has had (together with her fellow Democrats.) Almost all the Democrat candidates are, as usual, facing no opposition. THE GOAL HERE IS TO KEEP THE FUNDING FLOWING TO THE RIGHT POLITICALLY CONNECTED INDIVIDUALS NOT TO IMPROVE LAKE COUNTY.
Bill Fine offers and will deliver the exact opposite. He will make the 12th District and Lake County excited and thankful to be part of Indiana. This will truly be a new experience for Highland and Munster. Bill Fine is not a career politician nor has he been "feeding off the public trough" his whole working career. That is for the Democrats in Lake County. Fine has the program to get Lake County back on the jobs track. Remember in the State of Indiana's new job tally, only 100 net new jobs were created in Lake County according to the Indiana State Government. This would never happen if Bill Fine represented us in Indianapolis.
Bill Fine is the only candidate in the 12th District who will not allow for the continued slide of Lake County down, economically and culturally. He will end the status of Lake County continuing to be a net out County for tax payments. You all know that Fine is the real choice in this election. For once, vote the needs of the people, businesses, and youngsters of the County: Vote for Bill Fine.
Is this a bad joke? No one in law enforcement in Lake County would agree that there is any, and I mean any truth to this study. It is essentially at best a bad joke and at worse or way to mislead NWI citizens about how bad local government is, in many way, but in particulat when it comes to corruption. The head line of the following Post Tribune story is extremely misleading.
U. S. Attorney Capp points out quite clearly what the problem is with the data. It includes the most petty infractions with major public corruption crimes. Each one in the data base is equal to 1, That is they have "corruption equivalancy," which is just not true when you are measuring its consequances for the local citizens.
As I have frequently argued, the Lake County Democratic Party (under Baby Mac) is a corrupt institution as characterized by Indiana's RICO statute. If any of the evidence was available, that would be shown in court. Nonetheless, I doubt than any member of the FBI here would disagree. The corruption in the Northern Lake County cities is one of the factors that have destroyed them and turned business away. If the Democrats proceed further in Lake County, business will leave there also.
Just look at the population to conviceted public officials and you will see that consistantly, Lake County corruption is the norm. It is rare when a public official is not acting corruptly.
"Right to work" laws are not aimed at the unemployed, who are in many case unemployable anyway, they are aimed at creating new jobs. Texas, which has the closest unemployment rates to Indiana's, has created half of all the jobs in the country during the past two years.
Passing right to work laws would be a boom to NWI, which currently no sane business will touch, and significantly lower the unemployment rate for the State. In NWI, unemployment is over 10% and growing (unless people leave.)
Labor leaders have too much of a cushy job to give up on right to work. It is the union members who will be hurt over the long run. The Midwest America is gone. Wherever there is strong unions there is no business or employment. You do not need a left wing nonsense academic to tell you this. Just look around. When your eyes, and pocketbook, do not match the academic, you know the academic is smoking.
Uncertainty created by the slow pace of the economic recovery, gasoline prices, and the 24/7 news cycle continue to hold back business investment in Northwest Indiana and across the nation, according to the Times Board of Economists.
I love this. You are asking the people who are causing the problem why NWI has a problem. The Times Board of Economists have not idea of what is going on. And if they do, most of them will not dare say it. In my over thirty years of watching NWI political economy, the problem is most of the people sitting around the Times table. If anything of what they are saying has legitimacy then why was there minimal economic investment in NWI ten years ago, or five years ago, or even fifteen to twenty years ago?
The main reason companies will not move here start a business here in any significant number (and by the way Illinois too), is Unions, Corrupt Democrat politics, no available qualified labor, and lack of higher education with any credibility. These factors have not changed for over twenty years and over that twenty years there has been minimal investment in NWI. The only economic item that occurred is gambling and it is sucking what ever is left of economic life out of NWI. And now that is going to go the way of the dodo bird.
This is just not going to happen. For twenty plus years, everything has been tried without any success and Gary has sunk almost as low as it can go. I am sure the consulting group will enjoy their retainer and Gary will be that much poorer (financially). But, what is it about no one has any desire to come to Gary, that Gary's politicians do not understand? Nothing that in human imagination can be done with the Genesis Center, or anything else in Gary, which will attract the citizens of the rest of the County to go there.
Most citizens will prefer to pay for a ride to Ft. Huachucka, Arizona than go to Gary.
Now if Gary is handing out gold coins with dump Obama on them, that will attract people. How that is economic development can at least be argued and debated, which is more than can be said for the "new" Genesis plan.
I broke this story over five years ago. That included Visclosky's theft in colusion with Purdue University and Whitco Industries. House ethics panel investigating Visclosky.
Now everyone has to admit it is true. Purdue and Visclosky tried to destroy me personally with attacks by the President and Vice President of Purdue against me personally and harrassing me sexually and religiously.The President, Jischke, has retired but he should still be investigated for his role in this corruption and why he abruptly resigned from Purdue University. The fact is as I have pointed out before, he should be in jail after being indicted by a Federal grand jury. The Vice-President Rollock must be fired for attacking me and attempting to cover up the theft by Visclosky and JIschke. All the evidence indicates that she was in collusion with the powers destroy me personally and professionally so that I would stop complaining about Visclosky's bogus use of Federal Tax Dollars.
Finally the truth comes out that Visclosky and Purdue's president Jiscke are tied as thieves through the Purdue Foundation.
When is the current President going to come clean on the theft by the Purdue Foundation and Visclosky through the Merriville Technology Center? Visclosky worked for Whitco Industries with the assistance of Purdue University Foundation to steal over $7 million from the taxpayer. This was all part of a plan to enrich the Foundation, President Jischke, and Whitco Industries, which it did.
Remember the Purdue Foundation is like the East Chicago Foundations not open to public scrutiny. Even though Purdue is a public institution the Foundation is closed. Just like East Chicago and they steal and enrich themselves in the same way.
Visclosky needs to be voted out of office and the Indiana State Legislature take a close look at how the Purdue Foundation has been stealing money under false pretense from the Hoosier Tax payers.
