AUTHOR: Dave Sypniewski DATE: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 ----- BODY: It may not be Ellis Island where your relatives stepped of the boat from the old Country and were greeted by Lady Liberty, but Northerly Island in Chicago has it's own welcome wagon. Stick a torch in Mayor Daley's hand and prop him up by Lake Michigan as he encourages the people down in the Gulf region to come up to Chicago and rebuild their lives here, in the "City of Big Shoulders." Providing help is one thing, but promising those who take him up on his offer with free housing and college tuition is something else. Daley isn't just suggesting they come up here, he's down on his hands and knees begging for these people to call Chicago their new home! It's great that in a city that's already overpopulated, high in crime, at the bottom as far as education goes and near the bottom when it comes to employment, that we can just roll out the welcome mat and give people that can't even find Chicago on the map priority "just because." Hey, when your KIA gets totalled in an accident, State Farm doesn't give you a Lexus! If they want to come up here to live...fine but, let them see how it really is up here where a factory advertises ten positions and 3,000 people show up in a line three blocks long to fill an application. If your kids want to go to school in the CPS system, live in the city, not the suburbs using a P.O. Box for a "home address". NOBODY ever gets a free ride to college legitimately. Either you pay for it with a loan, work hard on the side, or join the Army to get money. Lastly, when it comes to housing, if these people have $200,000 for a home, or $700 a month rent for a crappy apartment, they can stay where they're at and start over. I still support www.redcross.org for what they're doing. Money, supplies, food, shelter are ways to help out. New Orlean's is a poor, poor city and if it gets rebuilt, it will still be that way. If Mayor Daley wants to fly a dozen 747's up here full of people, he should let them stay in the big area outside his office known as "Daley Plaza." It doesn't rain more than twice a year anymore and the same goes for the snow, plus there's the nice big Picasso. Send your money down there to help, but Mr. Mayor, don't turn these folks from rags to riches. Charity starts at home. THAT'S the way I see it today! -------- Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: "Give us your tired, your weak, your poor..."

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Wednesday, September 07, 2005

"Give us your tired, your weak, your poor..."

It may not be Ellis Island where your relatives stepped of the boat from the old Country and were greeted by Lady Liberty, but Northerly Island in Chicago has it's own welcome wagon. Stick a torch in Mayor Daley's hand and prop him up by Lake Michigan as he encourages the people down in the Gulf region to come up to Chicago and rebuild their lives here, in the "City of Big Shoulders." Providing help is one thing, but promising those who take him up on his offer with free housing and college tuition is something else. Daley isn't just suggesting they come up here, he's down on his hands and knees begging for these people to call Chicago their new home! It's great that in a city that's already overpopulated, high in crime, at the bottom as far as education goes and near the bottom when it comes to employment, that we can just roll out the welcome mat and give people that can't even find Chicago on the map priority "just because." Hey, when your KIA gets totalled in an accident, State Farm doesn't give you a Lexus! If they want to come up here to live...fine but, let them see how it really is up here where a factory advertises ten positions and 3,000 people show up in a line three blocks long to fill an application. If your kids want to go to school in the CPS system, live in the city, not the suburbs using a P.O. Box for a "home address". NOBODY ever gets a free ride to college legitimately. Either you pay for it with a loan, work hard on the side, or join the Army to get money. Lastly, when it comes to housing, if these people have $200,000 for a home, or $700 a month rent for a crappy apartment, they can stay where they're at and start over. I still support www.redcross.org for what they're doing. Money, supplies, food, shelter are ways to help out. New Orlean's is a poor, poor city and if it gets rebuilt, it will still be that way. If Mayor Daley wants to fly a dozen 747's up here full of people, he should let them stay in the big area outside his office known as "Daley Plaza." It doesn't rain more than twice a year anymore and the same goes for the snow, plus there's the nice big Picasso. Send your money down there to help, but Mr. Mayor, don't turn these folks from rags to riches. Charity starts at home. THAT'S the way I see it today!

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