What is going on everyone? Does your life suck? I'm sure some days you feel like it
does you're not alone we all have those days the good news is every day above
ground is a good day at least that's how I've always viewed things but we all
have those days and a lot of those days have to do with where we live if you
live in a nice city or state that has a high quality of life score you're
statistically more likely to be happy I mean that's kind of obvious right kind
of just simple makes sense you live in nice place so you'll be happy it still
didn't stop someone from doing a couple studies on the subject today we're
talking about the Prairie State Illinois it's also where Abraham Lincoln lived
for a while and their other nickname is the Land of Lincoln he was born in
Kentucky but lived Illinois with his family in his late teens early 20s I
actually read a book not too long ago that stated they really aren't sure
anymore when he arrived in Illinois some believe it was a couple years later than
originally thought anyway moving on besides history Illinois has great
farmland great cities and the greatest pizza in the world up in Chicago
it's amazing pizza but Illinois also has number ten infrastructure about 58% of
the roads in Illinois are considered to be in good condition that means 42% of
them aren't in good condition it's basic math I'm glad I could help all of you
who are bringing up the calculator with that basic math problem solved it took
illinois lawmakers nine years to pass a transportation bill nine years and some
months to be exact nine years to finally address a seriously deficient
infrastructure illinois has such poor roads i don't care what kind of car
insurance you have it's not gonna cover damage from excessive pothole encounters
the infrastructure of the such bad shape that it was causing safety hazards and
costing people and businesses time and money in chicago i saw falling concrete
at the union's i didn't actually see it falling had already fallen and they that
little like rope things around it in Union Station when I took the train back
from Chicago trains and buses look like they served
in World War two across the state roads connecting farms manufacturing and
universities were just crumbling all over the place here's the thing the law
was passed this last June it won't go into effect until summer of 2020 when
they can start doing roadwork and stuff like that again and it'll be six years
before they complete most of the projects now it's government so
realistically it won't start till summer of 2021 and only half of the project
will be completed in eight years after all it is Illinois number dine
second worst place for business only being outdone by California Illinois
sucks to do business in Illinois continues to tax heavily and politicians
continue to destroy opportunities for employees and businesses
it's terrible combination that's led to an exodus they're seen both in families
and businesses it's like they went to some school on how not to run things
like California I read about a data room company that was moving 30 minutes away
into Indiana to save thousands of dollars every month here's an idea
find a middle ground tax enough to fix things but not so much companies are
racing to the state line like 1930s bank robbers number eight outward migration
like I mentioned before people are running out of Illinois like someone who
just found out their tinder date told a 200 pound lie on their profile more
people are moving out of Illinois than any other state yes more than California
for every 100 people moving into the Prairie State 137 people move out there
kind of running a little bit of a deficit there as one man said in an
interview about leaving Illinois when my old lady gets out of rehab we're hitting
the payday loan place and moving in North Dakota cuz it sucks in Illinois
those were his words not mine that's also when I decided to cancel any
plans I ever had of visiting North Dakota again the strange thing is it's
not just Chicago people are moving out of it's across the board the whole state
every place is losing people oddly enough except for one of the worst
places which is East st. Louis they don't seem to be losing many people
everywhere else in the state there's flooding out of there incredible number
seven crooked politicians Illinois sort of known for the crooked politician
thing they've had four governors who have served time in prison one currently
that's four that's three more than the other two on that list South Carolina
did have a lieutenant governor go to jail but yeah only three states about
governors go to jail and Illinois leads the pack but in Illinois it's like a
tradition to get caught up in some form of fraud or bribery for elected
officials they have a list of aldermen state reps and other city and state
officials doing some sort of time for some kind of corruption but the governor
that's currently in there is governor Rob Blagojevich who was Illinois's 40th
governor he served from 2003 to 2009 he was sentenced to 14 years in federal
prison the Justice Department complaint alleges that the governor conspired to
commit seven pay-to-play schemes including attempting
to attain personal gain by selling Barack Obama's Senate seat when he got
elected to the president the governor can appoint someone to take over his
seat at one point he was trying to get Oprah to take it over I don't know if
he's charging her or whatever but whoever he was trying to charge for that
seat he got wiretap by the federal government
and they sent him jail for 14 years now recently just back in like summer I
think June was the last time I heard of it there was talk about President Trump
you setting him free I don't know what happened with that I haven't heard it in
nine months he's still doing time number six
fiscal stability are you getting the feeling most of Illinois's problems come
from the government if you're getting that feeling the feeling is correct
remember when they couldn't get a transportation budget done for years and
years well these people have a hard time getting any budget through when they
ranked fiscal stability Illinois comes in in last place dead last at this point
I would like to extend another congratulations to the state of
Mississippi we now have three things you're not dead last and congratulations
Mississippi so what is fiscal stability fiscal stability is basically the
economy of the state but it's assess both in a short and long term basis a
state's credit rating and public pension liabilities are measured for long-term
financial help blah blah blah liquidity budget balancing bunch of stuff I don't
understand they're spending comparison to their income is really a big part of
it if you were to look at the books on Illinois one thing is crystal clear they
struggle with math harder than I do they just don't get it
something's not happening right here it's like no one wants to spend money or
someone wants spend too much money it just doesn't make any sense
number five pollution and air quality entire state tanks when it comes to
environmental issues Illinois ranked 37th and air and water quality and forty
third in overall pollution most people think this is all because of Chicago
it's isn't it isn't sort of right most pollution and water pollution comes from
farms the air quality now that's gonna be on Chicago and some of the bigger
cities but most standard pollution and water pollution come from the farms
Illinois has a lot of farmland if you drink the water in Illinois make sure
you have good health insurance or life insurance at least enough life insurance
so your family can afford to move out of the land to Lincoln after you're gone
but yeah the air quality is gonna come from Chicago and some of the other
bigger sitt not like they have other bigger cities I mean east st.
was kind of big and things like that but yeah the air quality tanks from Chicago
for the most part number for Chicago's reputation Chicago has a reputation for
being the most dangerous city in the United States because the high number of
murders the murder part is correct but the dangerous part is false
Chicago was actually ranked 14th that year and in 2018
it was 25th this all started the 2016 election season this was brought up over
and over by politicians some politicians claimed they would call in the National
Guard or army to the streets of Chicago to control the city this of course was
nonsense besides being against the law it would
face challenge after challenge in the courts and they'd never get on the
streets for this it was insane and it's also would be a serious miss
allocation of funds they're putting it on the wrong city Chicago that year did
have the most murder with seven hundred and sixty two homicides followed by st.
Louis with 326 and Baltimore with 318 so yes they did have more but Chicago also
has 9.5 million residents in the metro area where st. Louis and Baltimore each
have 2.8 cago ranked 14th among cities with at least a hundred thousand
residents in 2016 the Chicago murder rate was twenty four homicides per every
100,000 residents that was less than half the rate of st. Louis's with fifty
nine point six presidents and Baltimore's with fifty five point two
and also below the rate of other cities including Cleveland Memphis Tennessee
and Newark New Jersey so it was really just a bunch of hot air
that they were just using it to get elected it was insane and now Chicago
has this reputation for being the most dangerous city in the United States it's
nuts number three the weather depending on what poll you read Illinois is always
in the top five for the worst weather now I'll get some flak about this one
whenever weather is brought up in any my list people claim that it's not that bad
we are talking normal people here not freaks like myself that wait all year
for the temperature to drop below 40 degrees so we can fill normal I asked a
friend who lived in Chicago growing up and now lives in a place called
Wilmington Illinois side note to this I had someone tell me I didn't know
anything about the United States last time I brought up my friend Matt and how
he lives in Wilmington Illinois they said that I was an idiot because
Wilmington is in Delaware not Illinois and he wasn't having it when about 50
people in the comment section called him an idiot and then started correcting his
grammar and everything else and his spelling it was
horrible but anyway it's got to be rough being a sixteen year old know-it-all
anyway so this is how Matt described Illinois weather it is humid most of the
year spring lasts about a month in three days but it is always either rainy or
gray skies fall is the best season here but that only lasts for about a month
and six days summers are mostly unbearably hot and humid with no wind
whatsoever then the fun begins winner is windy with ice sleet snow and rain I
spend more time scraping ice and shoveling snow than I do sleeping some
months in Illinois then he said forget the sunscreen and remember the whiskey
it helps keep you warm number two the worst run state Illinois is considered
to be the worst run state in the Union most of the things on this list have
probably pointed most of you in that direction already I'm sure yes they beat
both Mississippi and California in this category
congratulations Mississippi you got another one you're not the bottom of the
barrel on the fiscal stability infrastructure politicians in jail
pollution air and water quality all point to the people that have been
getting elected are not doing what they were elected to do or they're just in
way over their heads and they need some help whichever just recently the
Illinois Board of Education suspended the licenses of around 50 educators who
have been charged with sex crimes violent felonies and certain drug
offenses implementing a new law that seeks to strengthen protection for
students basically are trying to make kids safe what a novel idea who thought
of it it's incredible finally getting around to it how did these people get
hired the first place I understand if they got the job committed a crime and
got fired soon after some had this on their records before they even got hired
since this all went down many of the teachers who lost their licenses were
fired or they resigned after their arrests while others remain employed but
on leave how long are then leave for until the statute of limitations expires
what's going on here what is even stranger about this situation
Illinois's doesn't have terrible schools they aren't the best but they're not
terrible kind of weird and number one the quality of life quality of life is
how they gauge whether a place sucks or doesn't suck for the residents Illinois
sucks for its residents it was ranked 47th for 2018 and they'll probably
capture the 48th spot for 2019 the reasons why because they suck that's why
all things like crime weather economy transportation etc all factored in and
that's how they come up with this ranking for quality of life
or any location Illinois's just about the bottom of the barrel most predict
that the next few years will just get worse for Illinois they're losing
residents and employers at an alarming rate which lowers the amount of tax
revenue which leads to even bigger problems Illinois's getting to the point
where the only industries that excel when things are bad will thrive bail
bonds lawyers payday loans cleanup and restoration type businesses those type
of things will do good in the next few years next decade in Illinois I'm sure
Honest Abe would cry if he saw Illinois now
all right so that is my top 10 reasons Illinois sucks I hope you guys got some
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