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 Post subject: Times increasingly propagandistic for Visclosky & SouthShr
PostPosted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:11 am 
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Doug Ross' column resorts to methods of manipulative mass-media re South-Shore extension, and idea of economic development in order to legally purloin 34% of the county's CEDIT fund:

He advocates, "State law allows it to be used for any purpose, but it's called an economic development tax for a reason. Lake County needs jobs, and the South Shore extension would deliver them."

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This is an utterly specious and misleading conflation of Keynesian government stimulus and the concept of permanently expanded economic development; indeed, a false characterization that attempts to equate means with ends, cause with effect. Aside from temporary construction jobs, the statistical projections of future employment are so speculatory as to be quantified fictions, devoid of reliably concrete substance reflecting authentic probability.

It is truly bad-faith manipulative to merely allude to the sum of money needed to be collected via signifiers such as "34 percent of CEDIT." The facts, something supposedly paramount to news publications, is we need to come up with $285 million - and we aint got it. Not now, not in ten years. What's more, the CEDIT wasnt designed to fund the infrastructural seeding advancing the interests of real estate developers and banking interests.

Truly, there is nothing more dangerous today than the media and its adoption of propagandistic methodology. It's like hearing of opposition Ukrainians, who eschew closer ties with Russia, citing aversion to Russian economic cronyism, preferring, they said, stronger ties with the EU and America --- and what, its versions of crony capitalism? Lol. Talk about eastern Europe absurd.


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