Comments on: Chicago: Corporate Headquarters and the Global City

By: The Urbanophile

The Urbanophile — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:51:00 +0000

This thread is locked.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:02:00 +0000

My guess is that the first step is to admit that a level playing or anyting even remotely like it exist in this country today.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:53:00 +0000

But, as I understand the process; you first have to admit you have a problem.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:50:00 +0000

I guess I am reminded of what people have to do that I have stop drinking do…a good 12 step program is in order.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:43:00 +0000

Additionally I will add that most American’s even older generates have now know for years that the “American Dream” no longer exist. Being smart and working hard gets….well what a lot op people are getting right now.

For most middle class American’s even attempting to getting a good education is out of reach or at best leaves you with half a lifetime of debt almost impossilbe to get out from under. Those same people are also not to be naieve enough to think that large numers of people in this country did’t even make it to the upper class the old fashion way…education, hard work and honestly. They were either born with a silver spoon and are so detached from normal peopple they don’t even know what mainstream America is, or they are what we are now seeing…educated crooks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:32:00 +0000

First I am not trying to inflame anyone. Millions of “everyday” people are losing everythig they have so some fat cats could live unbelievedalb lives, then fail and jump out with even more millions.
People are not stupid. The mistrust that has been created now is a deep on. It’s a game chager.

Secondly, if you have watched the election even half heartdly you have to know by now McCain will say and do about anyting to get elected.

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:27:00 +0000

Yes, and remarkably little of that rhetoric was about the rich as a class. It was about bankers as a foreign element, the failings of the existing system, and the threat of communism.

Let’s get something straight: raising taxes on the rich is what FDR did in response to the Depression. Somehow that didn’t result in people killing the rich.

By: thundermutt

thundermutt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:36:00 +0000

anon, I suggest you visit the Holocaust Museum some time for an example of what happened during the Great Depression in Europe. Inflammatory rhetoric kills people and has throughout human history, and I don’t think it’s absurd to caution against it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:43:00 +0000

Thundermutt, you mention how the rich might be in peril because of Democratic rhetoric, but McCain has been equally outraged, and if you have seen the types of people and their comments at his rallies, you would see that the crazies are in his base, not Obama’s.

And your entire argument is absurd. No one is talking about killing the rich, and that never happened during the Great Depression, so you have no basis on which to make your slippery slope argument.

By: Alon Levy

Alon Levy — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:51:00 +0000

Here’s the thing: none of today’s world cities developed as a finance center. New York and Chicago started out as manufacturing and shipping centers, and developed finance as a way of handling their growing urban economies.

For a good case study of city redevelopment, look at Boston, sixty years ago as declining and forgettable as Pittsburgh. It didn’t develop by attracting corporate headquarters or finance; it developed by using its proximity to major universities to finance small businesses in the science industry, some of which went on and became big business.