Passport and social security number in one day if you are illegal

Canada Free Press ^ | 09/14/14 | Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh

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To what extent has the Chicago way expanded to the rest of the country? For many decades powerful Chicago congressmen such as my neighbor Rostenkowski had patronage in INS and especially IRS and Social Security. Civil Service exams were given in the back room of his political office. Passing the exam depended mostly on the amount of money passed to the right people.

Once Chicago style bureaucrats are in power, they slow down things others want to be fast and speed up things others want to be slow...or not at all. So then frustrated public come in and try to navigate the system. The civil servants tell them to hire a lawyer or consultant to navigate the system. The civil servant gives them a list of 10 or 20 lawyers and consultants...immigration navigators, or tax navigators, or whomever depending on the agency and issue.

It happens that everyone on the list is a cousin, inlaw or business partner of the civil servant.

But money isn’t the only capital. In Rosty’s part of Chicago the large Hispanic political organizations were delivering votes for Republicans (Ogilvie, Kucharski, Woods, etal). So Rosty (and Hartigan, etal) led a movement within the Democrat party (opposed by Biesczat, Keane, etal) to deliver lucrative jobs to foot soldiers at little or no financial benefit to the insiders.

People like Michelle, Valerie and Axelrod come out of that well established sub-culture of using agencies for personal and political advantage.