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Evanston can’t pay its bills: it is tens of millions of dollars in arrears in legally mandated contributions to employee pension funds. A city of 75,000, it has a swollen bureaucracy and a dizzying array of social “services.” The city boasts THREE public libraries, one a three story multi million dollar state-of-the art facility that occupies most of a large city square block. The city’s school system offers a broad menu of PC courses including an AFRO-CENTRIC curriculum for African American kids whose parents choose it, and bilingual programs for Spanish speakers. The City Council’s response to its fiscal woes is to propose 15 and 20 percent increases in the city’s 2008 real estate and real estate-transfer taxes.
While the city flounders in self-inflicted debt, the aldermen squander time and energy on useless feel-good resolutions. Already a de facto sanctuary city, the City Fathers feel the need to advertise the fact with a pious self righteous proclamation demonstrating how “humane” they are. Meanwhile, in the real world, the prime suspect—he’s detained and awaiting trial—in the city’s most recent homicide is an illegal alien.