Chicago is Bleeding

Crime hasn’t been this bad in Chicago since 1996. Is it about to get worse?

Photo by Neal Kharawala on Unsplash.

There are Obama-era signs cropping up again everywhere, and the news they bear isn’t exactly music to the ears of the working class.

Again there is much talk of an “economic recovery” in the press, pushed relentlessly by a strictly homogenized group of information gatekeepers who really want that to be true.

Again, on the ground in poorer communities, there aren’t as many signs of an “economic recovery” as there should be, considering the robustly rosy outlook being touted in the press.

Gas is up over $7 in California; in most places it is half that, though still twice as high as it was at this time last year. Homes in California now cost double the national average as well.

Prices are up in the grocery store, the hardware store; for wholesalers and retailers. More price hikes are coming, thanks in part to supply line issues and the rising cost of petroleum.

It is much more than a “crisis of undelivered treadmills,” as White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki recently characterized the shortages, shipping delays, backlogs and supply chain issues. Nor does it appear to be transitory.

The global, petroleum-driven supply chain problems aren’t going away anytime soon. President Joe Biden…