I loved this part of your link:
""I'm for jobs in this community, but I have an insult level," said state Rep. Mary Flowers (D-Chicago). "People need a livable wage. As an African-American woman, I once worked for $1 an hour. I'm not talking about what I don't know."
Gee, as a Caucasian I once worked for $1 an hour, too - that is what is known as a starting wage. The general understanding is that you move up from there. Her assumption that only African Americans have to build from the ground up is unbelievable. I guess she thinks we all should start out in "management" positions and a wage to go with the title.
I have seen that quote by her before and the same thing occurs to me now. When she was earning $1 per hour she may have been really earning it, now she's an alderwoman and living 100% off others earnings.
What blows is that Flowers is my state rep.