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too many people there are just too many people in this country for it to be possible to treat everyone with the respect they deserve as a human being any more. the very social institutions we have developed to serve the public are no longer able to consistantly do what they are supposed to do. a small percentage of the public has always been spit out by the system, but as our population grows, more and more people fall through the cracks. the system just keeps doing what it has always done and the number of people it grinds to a pulp keeps growing and growing. there are just too many people. i don't want to dote on all the horrible individual things the system has put me or mine through because of this problem. my point is that our social SYSTEMS (government, justice, law enforecemnt, postal delivery, fire, etc.) have become not only inefficient and ineffective, they are becoming detrimental to human integrity. we are just numbers already. the system is not able to afford human dignity anymore. there are just too many people. straighten up and fly right. toe the line. don't make waves. human beings that are not able to dot every 'i' and cross every 't,' or don't want to, have no place in this system. there isn't time or resources. if you do everything in the exact same manner as everyone else, which we will spoon feed you, you may have a small chance of not getting run over by the system. if you stand out, or delay, or have other needs, the system is going to crush you. it isn't cruelty or purposeful, there are just too many people. there is no room for individuality when the system is supposed to support everybody. there are just too many people. This is a nation-wide phenomenom, but chicago is a microcosm magnification of the problem. police and postal organizations are corrupt and incompitant and further taxed by the sheer numbers of citizens they 'serve.' the courts are backed up, overworked, and desperate to bring in fine money because the city is so broke. go downtown and take in a few traffic court cases and you will get a snapshot of how things work. or, more accurately don't work. there are just too many people, but if you fine them all that is a lot of money. everything in this town is like that. since i mention traffic, lets look at this system a moment. traffic law is really a covenant between a municipality (chicago) and a driver. the driver agrees to surrender to the city's authority and laws, and the city agrees to provide safe roads and facilitate traffic. if a driver violates a traffic law, breaking this covenant, he is penalized. however, there is NO mechanism to penalize (or correct) the system when it breaks the covenant. Unrepaired potholes, untimed traffic lights, unattended traffic planning....and on an on. yet, this is status quo. NOBODY penalizes the city or even ever addresses these serious breaches of public trust. things just keep going on and on like this and get worse and worse. there are just too many people. chicago traffic is just one of the myriad broken systems here. not even the worst. the above example is a good metaphor for the major problem with chicago social systems. they no longer adhere to the covenant they made with the public when they were established. they have broken the terms of the contracts they made to serve the citizens and don't even have those obligations on thier radar anymore. the majority of governmental organizations in chicago function only to maintain thier own existance, NOT serve the public. add to that initiatives like the ones the last two mayors have backed, catering to the rich on the backs of the marginalized. people and thier complicated human needs and dignity become detrimental to these systems. govermental systems see individuality as obstacles that need be removed. there are just too many people. chicago looks at all those people and just sees all that money. its systems function almost uniformly to extract money from all those people. 'serving' people is not even a byproduct anymore. this city only serves itself. 
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4Skin, if you weren't banned from my site forever i would tell you that i did not vote for obamma. i have voted independant or green party for the last dozen elections or so. i am never able to stomache voting for either major party's offering. bluehair, the way things are getting here, the poor are becoming the new huge migration to the suburbs. the city is just becoming incredibly expensive and poorly run.
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it is NOT about who we let in or not. it is about what we should call other humans or not.
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