" Am I doing this right?"

Yep. If he donated that money to Northwestern he'd be praised to the nth. But because he left Illinois for Florida the donation has to be derided.

Danforth,

I've done so on countless occasions and it's more than just Trump. Ever hear of Mark Houck?

Also, I've provided all sorts of links in the past and you just reply, "Nuh uh!"

#71. When I read their respective posts it's blatantly obvious.

Zed,

You love and adore fascism when Democrats are in power.

" You're an idiot. Go pick your toenails or something.

#57 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-10-05 06:18 PM | FLAG: "

He's a hell of a lot smarter than you, but at least you didn't tell him to off himself, so there is that. You are arguing just for the sake of arguing. You aren't even addressing the points being made. Calling people stupid but not even addressing their arguments makes you look, well, stupid.

You wanna make someone you think is stupid look stupid? Decimate their argument with facts and/or logic. Your attack dog style is tiresome and boring.

" You, on the other hand, are a sycophantic b*&^% to people who would kill you themselves if they knew it would boost "shareholder value."

#54 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-10-05 06:06 PM | FLAG: "

Strawman alert! Also, completely unrelated to this thread. But then, you don't comment on topic much any more. It's almost exclusively personal insults and nothing else. It's all you've got.

" Remember when you claimed censorship under Biden, or grift, or weaponization, and couldn't find any?"

Clear examples of all of those things. You just claim that things that happened didn't actually happen.

More specifically, from the article, this is what I was referring to:

" France's third problem is a government expected to provide for and handle practically everything. French government spending as a percent of GDP is a whopping 57% (versus only 37% in the U.S.).

All that government has bought abysmal growth and stagnant incomes. In the 1980s, France's per capita GDP was roughly 93% of America's. Today it is only 72%, and the median American has about 50% more disposable income than the median Frenchman, after taxes, cash benefits, and differences in purchasing power.

When the government is the largest allocator of resources, people focus their productive energy on persuading it to allocate in their favor. The wealthy and connected do their persuading with lobbyists (or bribes). Everyone else does it in the street. Hence the French pattern: farmers, rail workers, and students always seem to be protesting something.

In a freer economy, people get ahead by focusing their productive energy on providing goods and services that others want. When the state allocates less, there is less to gain by setting buses on fire.

Want to be like France? You know how to vote

Three policies are driving France's slow-motion collapse:

Punitive minimum wage laws that price the young out of work.
Unchecked immigration that ignores cultural compatibility and assimilation.
An overgrown, suffocating state that crushes economic dynamism.
Curiously, these happen to be the crown jewels of the American progressive left. Roughly 90% of all Democrats support doubling the minimum wage. More than 70% of "strong liberals" support removing ALL immigration restrictions. And 79% of Democrats want bigger government, a share that has climbed steeply for 30 years."

Fake. Nope. I listen to what they say when they let the mask slip and I observe their policies when they are in power.

Wanna know why I don't vote Democrat? This is what they want for the US.

" "My guess, at this point, is that Mr Paxton will win the election."

Mine, too."

Jesus H. He's so despicable.

" @#39 ... You are a very dumb person. ...
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Projecting, yet again?

#40 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2026-10-03 11:06 PM | FLAG: "

Well played.

JPW,

You are a very dumb person. Bottom line is Illinois now gets $0 in taxes from Griffin and just lost 2500 jobs to Miami and all of the income tax revenue those employees will be paying. That's the point of this thread. And it apparently flew right over your conceited head.

The article heavily quoted the Chicago Tribune which lays out all of the problems associated with chasing the wealthy out of the state, moron.

Of course Iran wants Dems in power. They have repeatedly showered the mullahs with love.

California is so weird. They won't prosecute shoplifting by want to fine someone $500 cause their teenager isn't sitting in a fricking. booster seat.

#68. Take it up with Jones and her daughter.

You are unwittingly underscoring the whole point. NY dumps a boatload of money into public education yet the results are terrible. It's not a funding problem.

" Nice of you to pick THE HIGHEST PAY in the nation as your counter example."

I chose NY because that is where this thread is focused.

According to AI:

" The average K-12 public school teacher salary in New York is approximately $95,000 to $98,655 per year, ranking among the highest in the nation"

That is a lot of money to work less than 3/4 of the year and with weekends guaranteed off. That doesn't even take into account benefits.

" #48 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY AT 2026-10-02 05:29 PM | FLAG: "

What makes you think teachers are poorly paid?

" a screaming partisan mob who thinks the liberals are turning their kids trans.."

If the shoe fits ...

#43. Other than your first point I actually agree with the rest of your post.

" Republicans want to defund public education in favor of providing themselves discounts to attend their private schools"

The failing schools Jones' kid attended spend over $50K per student, well above the national average. These districts are wholly run by Democrats and their union buddies. So naturally Danforth and Lamplighter blame the GOP for their failure and naturally are opposed to things like school choice they give parents options for their kids.

" While the right and Republicans CONTROL public education.

Hence the devolution.

#13 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2026-10-02 01:02 AM | FLAG: "

That is some epic and disingenuous trolling)g right there.

At the state level Republicans have been pushing things 8e school choice something Dems ferociously oppose.

The left and Democrats dominate public education. Read the article. Hell, read HannahJones' op ed. You all built this, support it and own it.